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Simon Willison (@simonw) added a new comparison tool on 2026-07-16 at…

Brief

Simon Willison published a new comparison tool (posted 2026-07-16) that leverages the Go library AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii; he also compiled the library to WebAssembly using Fable 5. The tool is hosted at tools.simonwillison.net/merm… for side‑by‑side comparisons of mermaid-ascii outputs.

Why it matters

Simon Willison (@simonw) added a new comparison tool on 2026-07-16 at tools.simonwillison.net/merm…

Key details

  • The tool uses the Go library AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii and a WebAssembly build compiled with Fable 5
Source evidence

I just added this new tool which uses the Go AlexanderGrooff/mermaid-ascii library (also compiled to WebAssembly by Fable 5) for comparison tools.simonwillison.net/merm…