WASM Tool to Convert Mermaid to ASCII

Simon Willison · rss · 2026-07-16

The author has compiled a Mermaid to ASCII conversion tool into a WebAssembly version that runs directly in the browser, making it easier to compare different implementations.

They initially built the Mermaid-to-ASCII tool based on Rust code from Grok Build. Later, discovering a more mature Go version (AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii), they used Claude Fable 5 to compile it into WASM as well.

This newer version also includes support for color rendering.

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