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"DLS-based diagramming tools like Terrastruct, mermaid, or graphviz definitely have their perks and are very well established for manual graph curation. But I f
by Veuxdo 2y ago
"DLS-based diagramming tools like Terrastruct, mermaid, or graphviz definitely have their perks and are very well established for manual graph curation. But I found the lack of programmatic a bit of a pain point."
Hi, creator of Ilograph[0] here. I agree with this if the DSL doesn't provide an IDE with autocomplete and instant-rendering (which I think applies to the technologies you mentioned).
With auto-complete and instant-rendering, I think a DSL is much preferable to Python (the most common "diagrams-as-code" language). Python is a programming language for writing, well, programs. It feels like complete overkill for creating static diagrams.
[0] https://www.ilograph.com https://www.ilograph.com
- s0l0ist 2y agoNeat product! I like the interactivity. For me (and my narrow use-case), I just couldn’t find a simple tool to sync my graph to somewhere that I could view it easily - especially after I’ve instrumented my application and deployed to the cloud.
- lazyasciiart 2y agoI’ve been using this GitHub service https://github.com/dreampuf/GraphvizOnline https://github.com/dreampuf/GraphvizOnline
- s0l0ist 2y agoYeah that and http://magjac.com/graphviz-visual-editor/ http://magjac.com/graphviz-visual-editor/ are decent. But they will crash on medium/large graphs because the WebAssembly build of Graphviz that they use under the hood isn't compiled to allow memory growth.
- foundry27 2y agoThis looks really interesting and I love how well put-together it feels! I wish your offline desktop software version had a one-time payment option though. Forcing SaaS subscriptions for non-SaaS is a big turn-off IMO.
- Veuxdo 2y agoThanks for the kind words! I appreciate the feedback and understand where you're coming from.