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> why not use existing tools like plantuml for common diagrams? Pikchr was created specifically to support the sqlite family of projects and was initially depl
by sgbeal 3y ago
> why not use existing tools like plantuml for common diagrams?
Pikchr was created specifically to support the sqlite family of projects and was initially deployed in the markdown processor of the Fossil SCM (one of sqlite's siblings). That whole family of projects avoids third-party dependencies where at all possible for reasons too detailed to type out one-handed on a mobile device.
- sgbeal 3y ago> That whole family of projects avoids third-party dependencies where at all possible for reasons too detailed to type out one-handed on a mobile device. ... but which has since been elaborated on in <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38890382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38890382>.