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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/)

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/)

Nice! I hooe the apis for this will be exposed, I myself and I am sure many others will want to build quarto and native .qmd support into many things (obsidian, web, anything electron, maybe even into agentic coding gui’s?)

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)

Bidirectional editing a-la Overleaf would be an absolute game changer