I did a big heads down on this about 6 months ago as I was writing a paper and needed a ton of sequence diagrams to explain protocols. PlantUML is a major pain

I did a big heads down on this about 6 months ago as I was writing a paper and needed a ton of sequence diagrams to explain protocols. PlantUML is a major pain. I didn't know about Mermaid at the time. Latex has a ton of code for building better charts but they're all very very low level. What's needed is a higher level abstraction here. It should be possible to have much higher level charts without having to be a latex god.