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wtb04yesterday at 8:19 PM1 replyview on HN

Cool project. I made something similar to programmatically generate my CV, but using LaTeX with a LuaLaTeX backend. It works, but it is really slow and has a lot of dependencies.

I’m seriously considering rewriting it in Typst at some point. It probably would not be that hard, and I’d likely get much faster builds with far fewer dependencies.


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memsetyesterday at 10:28 PM

Everything for typst was generated via LLM. The template itself takes json as input and then uses the typst template language to render. It works very very well.