Showcase: Native MathML formula rendering for VitePress docs using a 3.5KB compiler

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VitePress is widely appreciated for its speed, minimal client-side bundles, and excellent developer experience. For developers building math-heavy documentation, relying on KaTeX or MathJax introduces huge bundles (up to hundreds of kilobytes of JS/CSS) which conflicts with VitePress's philosophy of keeping site page sizes tiny and loading fast.

A Modern Alternative: Native MathML
With the universal adoption of MathML Core in modern browsers, we can shift the heavy layout rendering work to the browser's native C++ engine.

We created @webc.site/math, a super lightweight TeX-to-MathML compiler:

• Extremely Small: Only 3.58 KB (Gzipped, zero-dependency).
• Super Fast: ~329,000 ops/s, which allows instant compiling during build time (SSG).
• Zero Client-Side Layout JS: Compiles LaTeX to native <math> tags, resulting in almost zero JS overhead for your site visitors.

We believe this project aligns perfectly with VitePress's focus on performance and minimal page overhead.

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This is great!
The existing plugin's SVG output is not great.

It took 2 minutes to add your plugin, and the output is perfect for my use-case.

You should definitely add a PR to make this the default math plugin for VitePress.

(And maybe add a license to the github repo? I assume from the npm page that it's Mulan PSL?)