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I use some form of TeX (LaTeX or XeTeX) almost daily, and I often think about the future of (La)TeX and potential replacements.<p>I think that we desperately need some modern language for document preparation, which will replace TeX and its derivatives, but I also don't see anything like that on the horizon. The biggest drawbacks of TeX are lack of proper Unicode support; lack of support of modern font formats; and outdated programming practices. Tools like XeTeX, LuaTeX and ConTeXt tackle these problems with some success, but they are still not perfect. Also, they are too similar to TeX to bring drastic changes to programmers. We need something that is designed from zero specifically as a TeX replacement (including compiler, package manager, popular packages, bibliography manager, converters, etc...). I can only hope for better future...<p>BTW, fun fact: TeX is still actively developed. Knuth fixed some bugs in the kernel last month (after few years of pause).