Obsidian Open-Sources Pele, a Mermaid Renderer Up to 500x Faster

Obsidian founder kepano has open-sourced Pele, a MIT-licensed diagram renderer compatible with Mermaid syntax that is 100-500x faster than mermaid.js. It will power the next version of Obsidian and is available to try in the Pele playground.

2026-10-18 ~ 2026-10-18 · 2 related posts

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