awk VS tectonic

Awk now supports a `--csv` flag for processing csv's. https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/blob/master/README.md

Right, "the one true awk" corresponds to a book written in 1988, very explicity. https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

You were the one that that said POSIX awk to begin with, I was using your terms.

As far as shitting on the GMU tools, I don't think I've seen someone do that for over 20 years.

This is not a productive conversation. You can live life however you want

I also wrote a small program to benchmark and check the solutions across different Awk implementations (see the image). I use the macos system awk (which is pretty close to https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk if I'm not mistaken) as a reference (the first column), so all solutions had to work with that.

A simpler Yacc grammar is awk/awkgram.y.

Neat, this is now the third year I'm using awk and still learning new tricks. (I'm using awk as the reference, so I don't use gnu extensions.)

I did this in nawk, which doesn't support extended regular expressions. If instead you're using gawk, which does, check out \b for word boundaries in extended regular expressions. The [^a-z][a-z] approach you showed consumes the prior character.

BWK’s commit and test files (mentioned in the video)

https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/commit/d3a19e6f2533d479841...

git clone -b unicode-support https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk.git

This is dumb as fuck. Brian Kernighan of K&R (The C Programming Language) is 80 and he’s still more intelligent than any of you retards. Mf just submitted a patch to awk a couple months ago https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk

The Unicode branch: https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/tree/unicode-support

You may want to try https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic, which downloads files from TeXLive on-demand.

v2 has improved TeX engine lookup, improved PDF template look&feel, proper support for MS Windows (where it comes integrated with the Tectonic engine) and a few more new features.

There's https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic but I think the issue with that idea is that sure, you can re-implement TeX (it's sufficiently simple) in Rust and then run LaTeX packages on top of it, but then you're back to LaTeX and all its weirdness so you haven't really gained anything compared to LaTeX itself.

In terms of TeX, I would recommend taking a look at tectonic, a self-contained TeX distribution that auto-installs packages you need when you need them, and “just works” when you call the binary to compile… Because screw messing around with package managers, CTAN and XeTeX. I’ve been using it for around a year and it’s so much easier than any other TeX distribution.

For example, you can have your main application in something like Deno/Node/python that acts as a server, and then delegate the actual pdf generation to tectonic (https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic) or Typst https://typst.app/blog/2023/beta-oss-launch/

tectonic: https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic

How does it compare with Tectonic?

It's sad that Tectonic conversion to Rust[1] was never finished. For now it's just a wrapper around C and C++ code. By far, it was the most promising thing in this distribution.

[1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/459

The only thing I've seen is https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic but that's an actual re-implementation of TeX Rust.