Mermaid Diagramming Alternatives

This is neat! How does this compare with tools like draw.io or mermaidjs

maybe have a look at https://mermaidjs.github.io. it's markdown for diagrams

I wish there would be a mixture of diagrams.net and mermaid.

Why not use Mermaid (JS => SVG) or PlantUML (Java => SVG, PNG, etc)?Especially Mermaid [1] is supported by a lot of Markdown editors and can be directly rendered in browsers by including the javascript library. Without any data protection issues.PlantUML needs a server or an installation (Java) which can be self hosted as well. And provides a ton of integrations [2]. And of course it supports sequence diagrams [3][1] <a href="https://mermaid-js.github.io/mermaid

+1 to asciiflow. huge fan. better than mermaid, imo... diagram wont need special rendering and works in vim and all text editors.

MERMAID looks interesting https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid Any experiences?

A natural language mermaid diagram builder would be really neat. Something to go think about...

A good option is to use an LLM to produce Mermaid diagrams. For example Excalidraw has a pretty great integration for that.

With Draw.io embedding Mermaid diagrams and plug-ins available for VSCode and other IDEs, why is this so special?

Thanks for the clarification! Glad you can cater to both worlds.For diagramming and even UI prototyping I keep getting back to plain old ascii drawings though. Asciiflow.com is fantastic. I just wish they had vim keybindings. It's also great to embed in .md too. Could mermaid generate ascii? It just seems easier to comprehend and doesn't need a separate renderer.