Am I wrong for wanting this?
Generalized to "Unicode art" input, with smoothed output in SVG format:
https://github.com/blampe/goat
I was thinking something like this:
println 'hello world';
/* #mermaid graph TD; A-->B; A-->C; B-->D; C-->D; */
When the file is viewed in the IDE or git web host the image is rendered in the text viewer.
Am I wrong for wanting this?