feat: render typst/latex/mermaid asynchronously #273
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This changes rendering of typst/latex/mermaid (now called "third party renders") to execute asynchronously. This wasn't needed for typst/latex as they're so fast you can't even tell it's rendering, but the mermaid CLI requires spinning up a browser (!!!) so it can take a couple of seconds to render. This causes the presentation experience, especially during development, to become very clunky as changing the presentation file just stalls presenterm for 2 seconds per chart until they're all rendered.
This changes that so that charts are rendered asynchronously by a pool of 2 threads (which I will make configurable in another PR). This now means you can:
video.mp4