Typst is Weird and I Really Like It

For reasons not entirely understood to humankind, some software developers have an aversion to WYSIWYG: Typing into Microsoft Word1 and immediately seeing what the document looks like seems strangely alien. In some cases, this is warranted: If you write a 300-page thesis, modern desktop software is not able to cope with it, while being perfectly able to play back 4K video that is being streamed…