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And another Quarto announcement; I've alluded to it before, but we're making it "official". We've started work on Quarto 2. The blog post has an overview: quarto.org/docs/blog/po... We'll share more in future blog posts, but here's what you can expect from the Quarto 2 dev effort: (1/)

Quarto 2 is rewritten from the ground up in Rust. The performance-critical parts of the system are now entirely in a single source tree, which will give you much faster Markdown processing, as well with more thorough tooling support like error messages, lints, and completion. (2/)

Because the main code base is now fully in Rust, we can compile it to WebAssembly, and use it to drive a web-based collaborative writing system. This is based on www.automerge.org, and will have both open-source and commercial hosted versions. (3/)

We also figured out how to make the processing pipeline "bidirectional", allowing rich editors to conveniently and minimally change the .qmd source in editor environments. This will bring a number of new affordances that aren't demoable yet, but we think you'll truly love. (4/)

Finally, Quarto 2 will take some time to cook; don't expect a release for at least 6 months. Quarto 1, in the meantime, continues under development, and Quarto 2 lives in a separate repo: github.com/quarto-dev/q2 We'll have individual posts about all of the new tech coming up. Stay tuned! (5/5)

bro, just throw it in Claude Code and watch the GitHub stars roll in. Isn’t that how software development works?

Ok, so you joke, but fully seriously, take a look at github.com/quarto-dev/q...

I also have a Whole Thing about how academic writing-via-LLMs is wrong but there are some interesting alternatives out there …but also withholding. When do we get our NYTimes op-ed about the burden self-censoring?

Totally understand why you’re both holding off, but a whole thing (or, better, two whole things) about how academics are doing writing-with-LLMs wrong would be very useful! I know I’m not the only one trying to feel my way in the dark.

What I do only applies for software, and for specific reasons. I would almost never use LLMs for human writing.

Ok, I'm curious. I'm watching several different teams and techniques, and I'd love to know where you're landing.