[XeTeX] The future of XeTeX

Martin Schröder martin at oneiros.de
Wed Aug 1 10:47:22 CEST 2012


2012/8/1 Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> If I /were/ to propose a replacement language, I would strongly
> advocate JavaScript, which has almost universal uptake, adoption
> and acceptance.  From a purely personal perspective, I would also

When LuaTeX started I also toyed with the idea and had a look at
JavaScript interpreters - they where much larger. And JS isn't
designed for embedding (and IMHO Lua is a much cleaner language).

Go ahead, build JSTeX. :-)

Best
   Martin


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