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Curious, what's wrong with graphviz?
by dastx 6y ago
Curious, what's wrong with graphviz?
- afandian 6y agoI've used it for auto generated diagrams of our code. Partly because it's what I know, partly because, surprisingly, there isn't anything free similar. It's crashy for moderate sized graphs. And doesn't have quite enough layout and styling features. It's good enough but I'm on the lookout for something better.
- watt 6y agoHave you engaged the graphviz team? Maybe the don't have graphs of that size as part of their test suite, and if you could donate some samples, they would fix the "crashy" behaviour. No software should ever be "crashy" - it's buggy and bugs need to be corrected.
- afandian 6y agoI've come across the same issues that others have reported. The answers have more or less been "contributions welcome". They have every right to say that!
- mbar84 6y agoI was thinking about writing a markdown extension that would render a code block into an image using this and this extra system dependency is also what turned me off. It's just an extra roadblock for users and whole block of extra instructions for each platform that users have to figure out. It would be better if it would just work out of the box.
- yardshop 6y agoYour extension idea sounds similar to this that was posted yesterday: Pikchr: Documentation https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md Pikchr – PIC-like markup language for diagrams in technical documentation | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24601971 I don't know if you're referring to Go or GraphViz as the extra dependency (or both). It looks like Pikchr doesn't have any external dependencies, it's just a C library.