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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Coming very soon!
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Athens (open-source Roam Research) is no longer being actively maintained(github.com)
31 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|8 comments
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D2 v0.14(github.com)
1 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
looks like someone saw this and made an mdbooks plugin: https://github.com/danieleades/mdbook-d2
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
You're right, d2-docs will be changed to render all diagrams with Dagre or ELK instead. The docs existed before D2 was open source and we had open source layout options. Most of it already is, but there's a few that aren't, j
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
> the results of rendering with free engines are not as good Can you cite where this is stated? Dagre and ELK can produce preferable diagrams depending on conditions. You can be mad that something isn't free for you, but again, I
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
It's completely open source. The majority of users are using it with other layout engines. We put in work to make those look good and fix bugs around the integrations with those layout engines. The proprietary layout engine is a comple
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
https://github.com/andorsk/d2-mode
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
oh i see, you meant exactly that. Yeah, D2 isn't meant for reproductions of an exact image you already have. It's made for when you just want an aesthetic rendering of a mental model. See https://d2lang.com/tour&#x
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Sure. Semi implemented for demonstration: https://play.d2lang.com/?script=VJDNbqswEIX3fopZ3R34J3EuRUqr...
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
We link to this in the README for text-to-diagram.com, and it was a starting point for us when we were researching what's out there when designing D2. Thank you for maintaining this.
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
We're working on this. We had some label avoidance code in TALA, and we're trying to find ways to make other layout engines play nice with it. https://play.d2lang.com/?script=SrRSqE6yUqhOtlKoTqmtreXiqrBS...
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
It's not really time-saving. It's aesthetics, how much you care about the beauty and professionalism of your diagrams. All the layout engines will get the correctness right -- all the connections point to where you want em, etc. B
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Yeah it's just Mathjax equations. E.g. https://play.d2lang.com/?script=PNCxCsJADIfxPU_xH1uk4NzBJwlI... I'm not familiar with EPS. Will investigate, ty. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/i
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
it's been in their open PRs for like 3 weeks now: https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/pull/1389 . Maybe they just have all hands on deck for that launch they did today. Hopefully soon!
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
https://github.com/terrastruct/TALA (apologies for this hidden path. trying to strike the balance of making it findable for those who search for it while hidden to those who just want free.)
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Thanks! We actually released a couple weeks ago, and since then it's been almost 100% fixing/improving things the community's surfaced. Long list of stuff here: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/rele
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
thank you! Re support: yeah it's a long queue we're making our way through. We have VSCode, Vim, Obsidian, about to roll out Slack, Discord, working on Github, etc. Somewhere down the line, mdbook will be on the chopping block. (c
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
D2 offers 3 layout engines. 1 of them we made and 2 open source ones. Each have their limitations, and "near" is a keyword that's only supported in TALA right now. (it's there in the docs you linked) https://p
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
same. even I refer to our docs sometimes. This helps: https://d2lang.com/tour/cheat-sheet
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
hi HN, I'm Alex, my team and I made D2. The biggest new thing since last time D2 was here is that we now have a playground for folks to easily check it out without installing: https://play.d2lang.com . Also just to preface t
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D2 Playground – Online text-to-diagram runner(play.d2lang.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
D2's a new diagramming language just added sequence diagrams too: https://d2lang.com/tour/sequence-diagrams . (disclaimer: i work on this)
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D2 0.1(github.com)
2 points by alixanderwang 4y ago|0 comments
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
they can, but I'd recommend https://stately.ai/ . they are focused on just state machines/charts and does them extremely well.
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
the uniqueness is that it's the highest quality drawing app on the internet. even if on paper other products say they do the same thing, there's a huge difference in quality.
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Terrastruct offers this too, with the bonus that the freeform changes get saved to the text: https://youtu.be/EhxVVkxv2Ns?t=128 (it is a paid product though, whereas diagrams.net is free)
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
whoa nice list! (ty for not naming it another awesome-something lol). xosh.org one is what we used as a starting point to find and try out every text-to-diagram tool when we were doing research for D2. i don't think they're mainta
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
hi, I'm Alex at Terrastruct and we made this. we just launched D2 last week, where this site was brought up plenty, so I didn't expect this to come up again. happy to answer q's if any. (we're working on a playground so
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by alixanderwang 4y ago
Since it's not mentioned, we also use as TODOs/issue-tracker. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues We actually switched from Linear to Github Issues because of how nice it is to have the TODOs coloca

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