TALA

A diagram layout engine designed specifically for software architecture diagrams (by terrastruct)

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TALA reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of TALA. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.
  • D2 Playground
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Mar 2024
  • Architecture diagrams should be code
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jan 2023
    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.

  • D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Dec 2022
    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.)

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