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▲ infogulch 10 hours ago

Please forgive my posting on the broader topic of Mermaid... The Mermaid package has gotten much bigger recently. Compare mermaid.min.js across a sampling of major releases:

     9.2.2  2022-11-09  1.09 MB 
     9.3.0  2022-12-15   899 kB
     9.4.0  2023-02-15  2.82 MB
    10.9.1  2024-05-14  3.34 MB
    11.4.1  2024-11-27  2.57 MB
All the new features are really cool, and maybe this is "fine" when mermaid itself is the purpose of the website (like this submission), but it's a bigger burden when mermaid is a value-add for generic markdown documentation: every visitor has to download and execute 3+MB of js just to view simple diagrams, or worse even when there are no diagrams on that page at all.

Is there a plan to reduce the required bundle size for viewers and users that only use a small subset of mermaid's wide feature set?