As someone who used LaTeX for many years and then switched over to Typst, I see no reason to use LaTeX these days. Typst syntax is more readable and it is much nicer to write.

Especially if you’re coming from markdown, I think Typst is the better choice. Typst syntax is very similar to markdown for the simple things and more advanced things are like any super high level programming language.

I’ve been using Reitti for a few months now and love it! Thank you for this wonderful application!

Building a package manager is kind of a large project, so I’d recommend trying to build some smaller applications in C# first. That will help you set up your development environment and get a better grasp on the language and ecosystem.

Once you’ve got an okay understanding of the language, I think a package manager would be a great project to learn with (especially if it’s something you’re interested in)!

2. do I invent my own pkg format or do I use pre built packages like deb or rpm? I think the later one will be more easier

Whether you build your own package format or use one from another manager is up to you. If you want to learn how a specific package manager works, consider integrating with their package format. If you want to design a full system, consider designing your own (and maybe take inspiration from some existing solutions). I wouldn’t say that using an existing format would be strictly easier, as those formats are specially designed and can often be very complicated.

1. where should I start?

This is a tricky question for any application. I’d highly recommend spending a little bit of time to determine roughly what steps will need to be done for each stage of package management (i.e., creating a package, publishing a package, installing a package). Since you’re just doing this to learn, it’s okay if it’s not perfect or if there are portions that are missed, it’s just important to get some thoughts out. When you actually start writing code, you’ll probably want to focus on the more fundamental aspects that block the other stages (implement package creation before implementing installation)

1/5. I took the community name and replaced all letters with numbers and it didn’t work.

(Nice community, I’ve subscribed!)

You may benefit from checking out Typst which gives all of the benefits (and some more) of LaTeX, but without all of the syntax garbage.

Basically, yeah. The vanilla client checks a blacklist when it connects to a server and prevents the connection if it’s blocked.

I maintain Basalt (looking for new contributors) and a variety of other projects. I also report and often fix bugs/feature requests that I come across in projects I use.