Mermaid: Markdown-like generation of diagrams and flowcharts from text

Mermaid is great, and I've used it for architectural diagrams of how tech stacks are put together, or data flows between apps. But it only produces marginally nicer-looking diagrams than Graphviz, and it optimizes badly against unnecessary line intersections (e.g. it's far too easy to end up with this, even in trivial diagrams: https://imgur.com/Tkpa9fD). My wish is for a diagram renderer with a smarter layout algorithm that heavily optimizes for direction and cleanness, understands grouping really well, and comes…

draw.io [1] has this hidden under Arrange->Insert->From Text and is also open source [2]. I work on the project. [1] https://www.draw.io [2] https://github.com/jgraph/draw.io

Awesome, what a cool library. I almost wish I had even an inkling of notion of need for it, just to try it out. Nice job, well done. EDIT: And the syntax and semantics are clear from the examples. Again, well done.