TALA
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TALA
- D2 Playground
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Architecture diagrams should be code
This is a problem with the languages, not a fundamental flaw. Manipulating text has a much higher ceiling than drag and drop, in terms of speed and simplicity. Every programmer has their own ecosystem for manipulating text. I can grep, version control, diff, jump with Vim key bindings, etc.
The layout engines are very hard. We've been making https://terrastruct.com/tala for over 2 years now. At first it seemed dubious whether it was even possible to beat Graphviz, but we've been designing it to emulate how diagrams might look on a whiteboard drawn by humans. That's a very different heuristic than the theoretical hierarchical cross-minimizations that previous algorithms strive for, and it's yielded good results for a subset of diagrams.
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D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML
https://github.com/terrastruct/TALA
(apologies for this path. trying to strike the balance of making it findable for those who search for it while hidden to those who just want free.)
text-to-diagram-site
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Ask HN: Guidelines for making clear architecture diagrams
As far as guidelines, I have spent time looking as well an never came away with a good answer. One useful website for comparing some of the best tools is https://text-to-diagram.com/. My personal favorite is D2. Still lacking a few layout features that I want, but it gets me 90% of the way there. The syntax is great for projects big to small, and it strikes the perfect balance between "create a diagram fast" and "feature rich". But in terms of actual guidelines, I would agree with another user that C4 actually tries to lay out some sort of guidelines.
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Nomnoml
One of those "text to diagram" contenders did a comparison website (open source) a while back: https://text-to-diagram.com/ (nomnoml isn't in there).
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Documentation as Code for Cloud Using PlantUML
Community list of comparisons between Text to Diagram tools: https://text-to-diagram.com/
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Sequence Diagrams in MermaidJS
https://text-to-diagram.com/?example=sequence&b=mermaid
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Is there a tool to visualize related stories, tasks, bugs, etc?
If you can get enough data out of the ticket system, maybe something like https://text-to-diagram.com/ will help.
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D2 (text-to-diagram language): Introducing Grid diagrams
We made a site to let people compare: https://text-to-diagram.com . (Mermaid maintainers contribute to it)
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Mermaid Cheat Sheet
I think Mermaid is better than PlantUML to write something quickly.
But D2 looks very promising. I like the simpler and more intuitive syntax.
https://text-to-diagram.com/
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The truth is, being a sysadmin can be a thankless job. What is something that you have done that your are proud of? AKA Toot your own horn Tuesday.
have you seen https://text-to-diagram.com/ for comparing these flowcharts including mermaidJS and graphwiz as you mentioned and there are a few more there.
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Generate diagrams programmatically with D2
Yes, it's a limited generator, because it's like 20 lines long and not the point of the article.
If you want to compare Mermaid against D2, take a look at https://text-to-diagram.com. The maintainers of Mermaid have contributed to it.
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D2: Free, open-source modern language for turning text to diagrams
For a comparison with other popular text-to-diagram tools: https://text-to-diagram.com (the maintainers of Mermaid have contributed to this).
What are some alternatives?
d2 - D2 is a modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
d2-docs - Language documentation and blog for D2.
d2-playground - An online runner to play, learn, and create with D2, the modern diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams.
keenwrite-themes - Document typesetting configurations using ConTeXt
mermaid-cli - Command line tool for the Mermaid library
flowchart-fun - Easily generate flowcharts and diagrams from text ⿻
d2-vscode - VSCode extension for D2 files.
excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
obsidian-graphviz - Graphviz plugin for obsidian md.
c4-notation - Technical resources for using the C4 model for visualizing software architecture.
OpenDiablo2 - An implementation of Diablo 2 in AbyssEngine.