I just learned of tectonic and would think it could serve the pandoc community very well. I am not familiar with the TeX engine world but it seems this project is very promising. It is based on XeTeX and can be built as a library, making it something that could come packaged with the pandoc binary. Further it automatically downloads any supporting files that are needed to compile a tex file and avoids creating intermediate files.

Would adding support be as simple as adding it to the list here in Text.Pandoc.PDF?

https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/PDF.hs#L124

prog | prog `elem` ["pdflatex", "lualatex", "xelatex"]

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