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Re:Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid by sitkack on Monday February 14, 2022 @06:40PM (#30340194)
It feels like Markdown and Jupyter notebooks in on the path to merging, and markdown is like the dumbed (need a different word for this, simplicated (though that that word is cumbersome)) down yaml which is a simplicated xml.

Why don't we just go back to xml and provide decent structured editors?

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Re:Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid by rch on Monday February 14, 2022 @07:01PM (#30340471)
Lack of high-quality free editors was a massive problem with xml, particularly when xsd was involved.
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Re:Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid by sitkack on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @07:59PM (#30368235)
Yaml is now worse than the thing it was designed to replace. Rather than solve the real problem (ungood editors), we prop up and extend a janky solution.
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