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I think anything that is chock full of backslashes and braces can surely be improved upon.

You will end up with just a different escape character.

No it really is much lighter, see my examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44354520

considering the Typst founders are German I wonder if this was one of their concerns with LaTex. Typing \ on QWERTZ is painful