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On a related note, you should check out this article which was trending earlier: "How we got 1,500 GitHub stars by mixing time-tested technology with a fresh U
by netvarun 9y ago
On a related note, you should check out this article which was trending earlier:
"How we got 1,500 GitHub stars by mixing time-tested technology with a fresh UI"
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-we-got-1-500-github-stars-by-mixing-time-tested-technology-with-a-fresh-ui-b310551cba22 https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-we-got-1-500-github-star...
HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567492 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14567492
Money quotes are:
"But after looking at the source code we found a fatal flaw in this tool: it used Graphviz — a decades old tool written..."
"...After a little research, we found the best library for the task— Cytoscape.js. ..."
... Although the code was much cleaner, the end-result was much worse compared to the original tool. Completely unusable.
It appeared that there is no way for cytoscape.js to have edges that don’t cross nodes. "
"...Don’t judge code by it’s age. Especially if it was written by tech giants such as AT&T Labs"
Turns out drawing/visualizing graphs is a really hard problem!
- le-mark 9y agoGraphviz is really good, but I tend to think it's held back graph drawing all these years. Anytime graph drawing comes the advice is to 'use graphviz' when nowadays there are some really good alternatives, most of them closed source commercial unfortunately.
- signa11 9y ago> ... but I tend to think it's held back graph drawing all these years. can you please elaborate a bit more about why you think graphviz has a negative impact?
- ColinWright 9y ago> ... nowadays there are some really good alternatives ... Can you name some?
- jxramos 9y agoMy favorite by far if you happen to have Visual Studio Ultimate around is DGML. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graph_description_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Graph_description_lan...
- tptacek 9y agoIt's a _famously_ hard problem, which is why most of the graph drawing tools you see outside Graphviz are simple force-directed or tree drawing routines.