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# About Mermaid
**Mermaid lets you create diagrams using text and code.** This simplifies the maintenance of complex diagrams. It is a Javascript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically. An alternative to Visio and other Diagramming tools.
**Mermaid lets you create diagrams and visualizations using text and code.**
It is a Javascript based diagramming and charting tool that renders Markdown-inspired text definitions to create and modify diagrams dynamically.
>If you are familiar with Markdown you should have no problem learning [Mermaid's Syntax](./n00b-syntaxReference.md).
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The main purpose of Mermaid is to help Documentation catch up with Development.
The main purpose of Mermaid is to help with Visualizing Documentation, and helping it catch up with Development.
> Documentation-Rot is a Catch-22 that Mermaid helps to solve.
Diagramming and Documentation costs precious developer time and gets outdated quickly.