Mermaid support

[mrchantey]

Maybe we can look into something like mdbook-mermaid although i think that performs the conversion at runtime with js, itd be better to have a build time solution.

[dlight]

There is also simple_mermaid and some other mermaid-related crates, but as far as I can tell they also just uses the the mermaid js library underneath and don't attempt to rewrite it in Rust. Unfortunately I think there is no proper Rust implementation of mermaid.

Maybe you can just use mermaid-rs on your build step, if you can live with it. It goes to the absurd of literally running headless Chrome in order to run mermaidjs and get a SVG out of Chrome's hands, maybe you can have a lighter environment by running mermaid on node or deno or bun or something else.

[mrchantey]

maybe you can have a lighter environment by running mermaid on node or deno or bun or something else.

Awesome thanks yes it looks like server-side mermaid is not yet possible without a browser.
js for now then :) might be possible to do something clever with jsdom or servo down the track.