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may I ask what your development process has been? i was told it's AI-assisted, but i assume you've been intimately involved throughout (ie, it's not vibed). i'm particularly curious about the performance enhancements. I assume you didn't just say "make it fast", which means you must have been

at least 90% of the improvement comes from architecture and focus since I am starting from scratch I don't have 14 years of baggage and backward compatibility to deal with my approach for performance is similar to the "Page Load Test" (PLT) benchmark the Safari team used, see bench:mermaid in Pele

my experiments made me confident I could get to 6x smaller and 500x faster, so that's my budget Mermaid has 33 types and endless uses, any perf cost I add, I have to find a perf improvement it's death by a thousand cuts, so MI is helpful for finding optimization space

Are you going to replace the math resolvers in Obsidian with it as well? If so, I'll mirror that move...

Obsidian is still using MathJax. We updated to the latest MathJax version in Obsidian 1.14, and we use it for Pele diagrams in 1.15.

Wait, Obsidian has MathJax support? (types $$x^2$$) It has! I feel like I have randomly found a new door in my house. And the room behind it is so me! My worldbuilding notes are going to be *rotten* with elven notations for calculus.

On a personal note, I am so grateful for all the love Pele received! I truly did not expect it. My hope was to get a few bug reports ahead of the Obsidian release. It's wonderful to see it adopted. I take this as a great responsibility. If you added Pele to your app feel free to share it below 🌋

We are using it for a timeline visualization of Belgian parliamentary dossiers! Huge improvement to what we had before. Many thanks