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pwdisswordfishy • yesterday at 8:11 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

For starters, TeX is Turing-complete, and the tokenizer is arbitrarily reprogrammable at runtime.

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gbear605 • yesterday at 8:57 PM

Browsers already support JavaScript anyway, so why not add another Turing-complete language into the mix? (Not even accounting for CSS technically being Turing-complete, or WASM, or …)

ErroneousBosh • yesterday at 8:20 PM

Okay then, what would stop you rendering TeX to SVG and embedding that?

Edit: Genuine question, not rhetorical - I don't know how well it would work but it sounds like it should.

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