The thing is, “language shapes the way you think”.
If you are limited to Markdown, you will think in Markdown only.
Enabling LaTeX opens up more ways to express yourself.
I would love to have LaTex support enabled but I haven’t figured out yet how to enable it. I have actually missed the support from Github a couple of times.
@erlend_sh is there an easy way to add a plugin like that here? I haven’t found anything in the admin ui except the already existing plugins.
But we don’t currently have the bandwidth to support this on our hosted service. We’re seeing an increasing amount of scientific communities adopt Discourse though, so I’m sure it’s just a matter of time until we can make MathJax/LaTeX support a priority.