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		inamberclad on Oct 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tectonic – TeX/LaTeX Engine in Rust Github says that this project is 80% C and 6% Rust. What's up with that?

kick on Oct 6, 2019 [–]

Tectonic is a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.

XeTeX and TeXLive are both written in C.

ratmice on Oct 6, 2019 | [–]

Another thing to consider is it isn't counting all the rust dependencies. You can get away with a lot less code in tree when things get pushed out into crates.

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