I maintain a Markdown-based website. I considered using diagrams to explain certain things. It would be a pain to keep image files and rebuild and export images

I maintain a Markdown-based website. I considered using diagrams to explain certain things. It would be a pain to keep image files and rebuild and export images every time the diagram changes. Instead I can put the diagram code directly in the Markdown file and update it as needed. Version control would track those changes legibly. This is very similar to using inlined LaTeX formulas instead of screenshots of the final mathematical formula.