devel VS tectonic

Compare devel vs tectonic and see what are their differences.

devel

Documentations and Issues for Developers (by texmacs)

tectonic

Experimental Oxidization of Tectonic the TeX/LaTeX engine. (by crlf0710)
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- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

devel

Posts with mentions or reviews of devel. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-17.
  • Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2021
    Problem with TeXmacs that they stuck with the old technology too - they use[1] ancient Guile and that prevents them to use JIT and in turn prevents[2] distributions to update Guile itself.

    [1] https://github.com/texmacs/devel/issues/9

    [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828124

tectonic

Posts with mentions or reviews of tectonic. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-27.
  • Finl Is Not LaTeX
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2021
    They have a forum but now discussion switch to GitHub Discussions[1]. The issue about oxidizing everything is here[2]. If you want to help the project there is a number of issues[3] that can be done, in particular syncronization with the Tectonic mainline and XeTeX code update[4]

    [1] https://github.com/tectonic-typesetting/tectonic/issues/766

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

    [3] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/issues

    [4] https://github.com/crlf0710/tectonic/issues/299

  • Learnlatex.org: A place to learn LaTeX online
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing devel and tectonic you can also consider the following projects:

patoline - Patoline typesetting system

pandoc - Universal markup converter

tectonic - A modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.

ktikz - KtikZ provides a nice user interface for making pictures using TikZ.

SATySFi - A statically-typed, functional typesetting system

Oberon - Oberon parser, code model & browser, compiler and IDE with debugger

LjTools - LuaJIT 2.0 bytecode parser, viewer, assembler and test VM. Lua 5.1 parser, IDE and debugger.

finl - finl is not LaTeX

tex-rs - A port of TeX82 to Rust. (WIP)