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I've never found one of these that works for more than simple diagrams. No matter which I've tried, once the diagram has more than a few nodes the layout goes w

I've never found one of these that works for more than simple diagrams. No matter which I've tried, once the diagram has more than a few nodes the layout goes wacky and you have to write so much additional code to hack it back into a sane layout. Then your code is a mess and the results are fragile. I'd love to find a diagram as code software that works well, but unfortunately PlantUML, Mermaid, D2 have all had the same issues

WillAdams 2y ago
I believe that the problem here is that there isn't an agreed-upon answer to a fundamental question: >What does an algorithm look like? The problem is expressiveness of such a diagram is bounded by the size of a screen or a sheet of paper, and once one starts to scroll, or can't see the entire flow at a glance, things get complicated. The node/wire programming folks have this a bit rougher to the point that there are sites such as: https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/ https://blueprintsfromhell.tumblr.com/ https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/ https://scriptsofanotherdimension.tumblr.com/ I prefer to work visually, but not sure if that's actually valid --- unfortunately https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ doesn't support all of OpenSCAD and https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor https://github.com/derkork/openscad-graph-editor has problems with a stylus (I have to leave the Windows Settings app open to toggle stylus behaviour which is enough friction that I don't use it as much as I would otherwise). There are promising tools though: https://nodezator.com/ https://nodezator.com/ and https://ryven.org/ https://ryven.org/ are very cool.