That's a good question. I'm less familiar with DOT than I am with Mermaid.js, but in my experience the one benefit an indent-based language has over the declare nodes then declare edges separately pattern (which I'm pretty sure DOT is also) is that it's nice for making smaller graphs quicker, because you retain a lot of context when you're just indenting from the line above. But that's totally a guess on my part.
DOT seems like a really robust, expressive language. Maybe at some point I'll to write something that transforms from this syntax to DOT.
DOT seems like a really robust, expressive language. Maybe at some point I'll to write something that transforms from this syntax to DOT.