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Penrose looks great. Beautiful diagrams and readable code. What are some other text-driven diagramming languages / tools? I know of: https://mermaid.js.org/ ht

Penrose looks great. Beautiful diagrams and readable code. What are some other text-driven diagramming languages / tools? I know of: https://mermaid.js.org/ https://mermaid.js.org/ https://graphviz.org/ https://graphviz.org/ https://flowchart.fun/ https://flowchart.fun/

gmuslera 3y ago
Another approach may be https://google.github.io/typograms/ https://google.github.io/typograms/ Anyway, I think that mermaid.js have an advantage there in a lot of environments as it is supported by a lot of markdown renderers, I would like that ChatGPT one does that too.
seized 3y ago
D2 Lang is a nice one: https://d2lang.com/ https://d2lang.com/
asah 3y ago
I assume the future is an LLM where you specify everything in plain english...
- doubloon 3y ago
  yup but ... right now things are in a bit of a primitive state. i have tried a lot of stuff with the ChatGPT Wolfram integration and it just fails all kinds of ways. its really cool when it works, but a lot of time it just gets really confused and cannot do basic things like "make that line black instead of red"
- Grimblewald 3y ago
  it already works really well with gpt4+mermaid.
abdullahkhalids 3y ago
Tikz
adaszko 3y ago
http://pikchr.org/ http://pikchr.org/ is great
thusjustin 3y ago
D2 is my current favorite: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2 https://github.com/terrastruct/d2
- Mikhail_K 3y ago
  D2 is scripting language primarily for non-free back-end. Opensource back-ends give inferior results with it.
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johanvts 3y ago
MetaPost. Shameless plug for my own introduction page: http://www.learnmetapost.com http://www.learnmetapost.com
syndicatedjelly 3y ago
Mermaid has been nice to use. It's very much in a beta phase still, with some odd quirks and missing documentation. I'm excited to see where it will be in a year's time.
- petepete 3y ago
  The fact it's supported natively by GitHub gives it a huge advantage over the others.
  - djbusby 3y ago
    In GitLab too
zczc 3y ago
https://www.plantuml.com/ https://www.plantuml.com/
shakow 3y ago
Asymptote[0] is excellent IME. [0] https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/ https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/
sestep 3y ago
Here's a page listing several more: https://text-to-diagram.com/ https://text-to-diagram.com/
- Veuxdo 3y ago
  This page was made by the company behind D2, so not exactly an unbiased source.
zie1ony 3y ago
For quick flowchart I use https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ https://www.websequencediagrams.com/
datashaman 3y ago
https://sequencediagram.org/ https://sequencediagram.org/

gmuslera 3y ago

Another approach may be https://google.github.io/typograms/ https://google.github.io/typograms/ Anyway, I think that mermaid.js have an advantage there in a lot of environments as it is supported by a lot of markdown renderers, I would like that ChatGPT one does that too.

seized 3y ago

D2 Lang is a nice one: https://d2lang.com/ https://d2lang.com/

asah 3y ago

I assume the future is an LLM where you specify everything in plain english...

doubloon 3y ago
yup but ... right now things are in a bit of a primitive state. i have tried a lot of stuff with the ChatGPT Wolfram integration and it just fails all kinds of ways. its really cool when it works, but a lot of time it just gets really confused and cannot do basic things like "make that line black instead of red"
Grimblewald 3y ago
it already works really well with gpt4+mermaid.

abdullahkhalids 3y ago

Tikz

adaszko 3y ago

http://pikchr.org/ http://pikchr.org/ is great

thusjustin 3y ago

D2 is my current favorite: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2 https://github.com/terrastruct/d2

Mikhail_K 3y ago
D2 is scripting language primarily for non-free back-end. Opensource back-ends give inferior results with it.

deleted 3y ago

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johanvts 3y ago

MetaPost. Shameless plug for my own introduction page: http://www.learnmetapost.com http://www.learnmetapost.com

syndicatedjelly 3y ago

Mermaid has been nice to use. It's very much in a beta phase still, with some odd quirks and missing documentation. I'm excited to see where it will be in a year's time.

petepete 3y ago
The fact it's supported natively by GitHub gives it a huge advantage over the others.
- djbusby 3y ago
  In GitLab too

zczc 3y ago

https://www.plantuml.com/ https://www.plantuml.com/

shakow 3y ago

Asymptote[0] is excellent IME. [0] https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/ https://asymptote.sourceforge.io/gallery/

sestep 3y ago

Here's a page listing several more: https://text-to-diagram.com/ https://text-to-diagram.com/

Veuxdo 3y ago
This page was made by the company behind D2, so not exactly an unbiased source.

zie1ony 3y ago

For quick flowchart I use https://www.websequencediagrams.com/ https://www.websequencediagrams.com/

datashaman 3y ago

https://sequencediagram.org/ https://sequencediagram.org/