On 7/27/2025 6:07 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 27.07.25 um 16:59 schrieb andrei@borisov.dev:
The package loads quite a huge library — `expl3-code.tex` from `l3kernel` package which eats a lot of time during compilation.
What has expl3 to do with ConTeXt?
nothing, it's something latex, as far as i understood (from some talks at bachotex) it's some layer that hides regular tex from the user (aside: so why use tex then anyway); kind of sounded / looked like 4th generation languages in the 80-90's, hiding the lower level language; but not suitable for my brain and mindset but that is of course personal the lua-tex-metapost combination in context is more 3rd gen but then also more fun esp after some more programming related primitives showed up in luametatex (and it works great with syntax highlighting as defined in context/scite mode); of course we do have some intermediate layer helpers but most is programmed in just tex-the-language (of course a related question then is: what do context and latex have in common anyway.. very little i guess) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------