Typst 0.15.0

The reaction was unusually positive. People are already using Typst for books, exams, invoices, concert programs, resumes, and other automated PDF workflows that used to rely on LaTeX, wkhtmltopdf, WeasyPrint, or paid PDF generation software. The repeated claim was not just that Typst is nicer to write than LaTeX, but that it is fast enough and programmable enough to replace brittle multi-tool pipelines. Several people described feeding JSON into Typst templates and generating polished PDFs directly, which is exactly the kind of boring infrastructure work where compile time, dependency weight, and error messages decide whether a tool gets adopted. Where the excitement cooled was around edge cases and institutional inertia. People doing theology and other humanities work said footnotes are still a real weakness, especially discursive footnotes tied to bibliographies and cases where notes land on the wrong page. Academic users also pointed out that many journals and conferences still require LaTeX sources or provide LaTeX-first templates, so Typst is often fine for drafts and informal writing but not yet a clean end-to-end replacement for formal submission. There was also a smaller design critique from LaTeX veterans who dislike Typst's lighter syntax in math and headings, though that came off more as taste than a blocker. The overall read is clear: Typst has crossed from interesting alternative into credible production tool, but the last mile is still standards-heavy publishing and the nastiest corners of typography.