24 engineers on Hacker News describe using LaTeX first-hand: 6 endorse it, 7 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“which I find a lot easier to maintain and format than the LaTeX resume I've been using forever.”
regret · personal · rhinoceraptor · 2026-10-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our previous pipeline was LaTeX-based (first pdflatex, then lualatex), but we were constantly fighting cryptic memory errors on large documents”
regret · production · mr-karan · 2025-09-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“There is a world of difference between this and LaTeX, which abstracts over TeX, and whose inner workings remain obscure even to experienced developers”
regret · personal · humanfromearth9 · 2024-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Typst was a perfect LaTeX replacement and we've been happy ever since we switched. It is easier to understand, has faster compile times”
regret · production · thomas34298 · 2024-07-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“LaTeX last time I used it didn't even have a different symbol for uppercase Alpha and A because the glyphs are indistinguishable.”
regret · personal · Blikkentrekker · 2023-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched to LaTex after both Word and OpenOffice Writer made working with the document a non-option.”
endorse · personal · virtualritz · 2022-10-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Each one of us has to spend the time and set up our own latex setup the first time we write using it. Hopefully never again though.”
regret · personal · ramraj07 · 2022-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then "never again" said to myself. Now I use pure latex.”
endorse · personal · kindahero · 2020-09-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were very satisfied with the result, and were able to do a lot with LaTeX style sheets”
endorse · production · mcswell · 2020-09-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I learned LaTeX because that was the 'Word' of Linux when I was installing Slackware from diskettes. And I don't regret it at all.”
endorse · personal · Shorel · 2019-11-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we did all documentation in latex with CVS. It was glorious but as soon as a couple of non-technical people joined it was unmanageable”
endorse · production · katsukare- · 2019-01-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“LaTeX is only good for one thing... And it's barely good at that. ... My verdict: LaTeX? Never again.”
regret · personal · dmitriid · 2017-08-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using LaTex for many years and I like it”
endorse · personal · honorious · 2014-11-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“kept my same old latex generated flawed human resume that I've been using 20 years or so.”
neutral · personal · 20 yr · goalieca · 2026-11-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've now been using vim as my main editor for notes, prose with latex or markdown, and programming for 20 years”
neutral · personal · trws · 2023-12-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started making LaTeX books about 5 years ago, starting with one for each year”
neutral · personal · 5 yr · yesenadam · 2021-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in the last 5-10 years I've been keeping records of stuff, mostly in various illustrated LaTeX books”
neutral · personal · yesenadam · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have done work in LaTeX simply because it was too complicated to do in LyX.”
neutral · personal · ben509 · 2020-10-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I know because I once had to convert an article with formulas written in LaTeX by hand into Word.”
neutral · production · jonathanstrange · 2018-12-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“latexmk -pdf Foo.tex, being the most common one that I can remember.”
neutral · personal · taeric · 2018-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“sometimes with bibtex and interesting latex tweaks”
neutral · personal · paultopia · 2017-11-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“started writing notes in LaTeX after a few weeks”
neutral · personal · majewsky · 2017-08-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“in the past two years, for the first time after considering it for a long time, LaTeX.”
neutral · personal · 2 yr · dredmorbius · 2014-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It offers (via AucTeX/RefTeX) a brilliant solution for bibtex files, references, writing LaTeX, autocompletion etc.”
neutral · personal · rmk2 · 2012-12-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?