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"No. The output might be beautiful, but the language is most certainly not. Awful to debug."

Absolutely agree but, as far as I'm aware, this "more modern alternative" does not exist.

Lout is quite a bit saner but doesn't have much traction. It seems to be in "deep maintenance" mode now.

There's Patoline[^1], which is still in a somewhat early state, and its language is quite LaTeX-ish.

[^1]: http://patoline.com/index.html

What about this ? http://dlmf.nist.gov/LaTeXML/

Having some XML output seems to make it easier to add CSS rules ?

Combines the complexity of LaTeX with the hideousness of XML. Great.

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