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by alixanderwang 2y ago
I work on the D2 project ([0]) and we switched from other Javascript runners (v8go) to Goja. Using a JS runtime with a dependency on cgo means your Go program loses the (huge) benefit of cross-compiling to different architectures, since at
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by alixanderwang 2y ago
No worries at all, the API is definitely a bit hidden. Anyway, best of luck and feel free to reach out if you want to chat diagrams!
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by alixanderwang 2y ago
Congrats on the launch! I'm the author of D2 (Terrastruct). I won't comment on comparisons you want to make as it's your launch, but just to clarify, we do have a programmatic API: - https://terrastruct.com/bl
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by alixanderwang 2y ago
> Would open-sourcing CodeViz change your willingness to give it a try? Yup. Or a web app that I can point to an open-source repo. Regarding C4, I'm no expert. I know the guys at IcePanel, an earlier YC-cohort company ( https:&#x2
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by alixanderwang 2y ago
> If you'd like to try it out on a specific repo, you can always use our extension for further analysis. VSCode extension marketplace doesn't have the best security rails or reputation for security, and with this being closed
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by alixanderwang 2y ago
Hi and congrats on the launch! I run a company that also does software diagrams and we've often been posed the question of generating automated diagrams. We've never done so, primarily because I've never found auto-generated
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Software Architecture Diagrams Gallery(softwarediagrams.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 2y ago|0 comments
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Gallery of software diagrams(softwarediagrams.com)
1 points by alixanderwang 2y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 3y ago
It was unmaintained for a long time (maybe considered done implementing the algorithm it set out to), but recently a Google engineer has revived it: https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre
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by alixanderwang 3y ago
> I got this impression once I failed to reproduce the examples in your documentation with free backend. This is easily verifiably false. All the examples have direct links to the playground to reproduce, except the few explicitly called
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by alixanderwang 3y ago
I'm not sure where you got the impression that the paid layout engine is the primary backend for it. We set out to make our own layout engine, which we charge for, true. However to say it outcompetes the efforts of all open-source ones
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by alixanderwang 3y ago
D2 has keywords to split up diagrams into multiple pages: https://d2lang.com/tour/layers disclaimer: i work on it.
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by alixanderwang 3y ago
It's hard to get as performant as Figma does, not as straightforward as a rendering medium switch. What if webgpu lets me get Figma performance with my little 6 person startup team without the massive engineering man-hours Figma has sp
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by alixanderwang 3y ago
i'm building a diagramming tool ( https://terrastruct.com ) and still umm and ah b/t it. I'm kind of waiting for webgpu to reach 95+% browser support before switching though. If I do all the work of switching, SVG b
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by alixanderwang 3y ago
What can I do if I live near one of the red spots? Do air and water filters help?
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Text to PowerPoint Presentations(d2lang.com)
3 points by alixanderwang 3y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 3y ago
404?
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
D2 is a text-to-diagram language that can do this out of the box for you: https://d2lang.com/blog/dark-mode/
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Looks great! Giving it a try, posted a $220 bounty: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/921
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Animated Diagrams with Text(d2lang.com)
1 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
we embed some CSS in SVG outputs to make animated diagrams for our text-to-diagram language: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/releases/tag/v0.3.0
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D2 0.3: text to animated diagrams(github.com)
9 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
I moved from Notion because of too many bugs, outage is just one of many scenarios where you'd want to bail, and not a primary one because it's not like a diagram service is in the customer path. The HTML files are also not enough
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Right. It's okay to leave written documentation on SaaS (e.g. Notion), because the text is the artifact. If they're shutting down, or I don't like them anymore, I just move the text. But if Ilograph goes down, all I have is
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
https://github.com/terrastruct/d2
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D2 v0.2.5 (text-to-diagram language)(github.com)
1 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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Hand-Drawn Diagram Aesthetic(d2lang.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Yup!
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Guide to diagramming with D2 (text-to-diagram language)(blog.logrocket.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|2 comments
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D2 v0.2 (open-source text-to-diagram language)(github.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments

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