Latex is no versioning tool but a textsetting language. It outputs perfectly formatted Documents after building and takes care of aranging images, quotes and all the tedious stuff so after setting up your template you only have to care about content. It works well with git.
Not like word where adding an image fucks the whole formatting.
Everyone still uses LaTeX for CS/Math at my school. It’s not an age thing. Just different circles. I don’t think anything similar even comes close to LaTeX yet.
the_third@feddit.de 6 months ago
I’m in that that as well. I’m my age™ everybody wrote their bachelor and master thesis in LaTeX 🤷
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I become a software developer later in life and never had the privilege to go to university, so sometimes I’m out of the loop on older tech.
How did Latex compare to modern Git?
derGottesknecht@feddit.de 6 months ago
Latex is no versioning tool but a textsetting language. It outputs perfectly formatted Documents after building and takes care of aranging images, quotes and all the tedious stuff so after setting up your template you only have to care about content. It works well with git.
Not like word where adding an image fucks the whole formatting.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
Interesting.
Yeah word sucks. I’m a software developer now and have to deal with Word and Excel more than I ever thought I would.
howrar@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Everyone still uses LaTeX for CS/Math at my school. It’s not an age thing. Just different circles. I don’t think anything similar even comes close to LaTeX yet.
kogasa@programming.dev 6 months ago
Typst is pretty functional
howrar@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Ooh, that looks cool. Thanks for the recommendation.