Show HN: Ferrite – Markdown editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagram rendering

Published: 5 days ago (January 10, 2026 at 08:50 PM EST)

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Source: Hacker News

Source: Hacker News

Ferrite: Fast Markdown/Text/Code editor in Rust with native Mermaid diagrams

Built a Markdown editor using Rust + egui. v0.2.1 just dropped with major Mermaid improvements:

Native Mermaid diagrams – Flowcharts, sequence, state, ER, git graphs – pure Rust, no JS
Split view – Raw + rendered side‑by‑side.

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