I really liked the UI and the ease with which diagrams can be created.Will it be possible to import diagrams from other tools like draw.io here.
Show HN: Create diagrams of complex data flows in software systems
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#22In case any of you use draw.io note that you can animate lines with a right click. Last time I did this for a presentation I did have to record to gif but it worked really well.
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#23Thanks for sharing your work. I too have the problems you’re attempting to address. Makes me think of LabView (which I would recommend checking out for inspiration if you’re unaware of it).
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#24Thanks for sharing your work. I too have the problems you’re attempting to address. Makes me think of LabView (which I would recommend checking out for inspiration if you’re unaware of it).
The love-hate relationship with LabVIEW is something I can not get closure about : great tool, abysmal ergonmics, revolutionnary piece of software, ubiquitous in some fields and still some LabVIEW ergonomics is just SO...bad : want to zoom on your diagram ? Out of luck !
Heard of death by a thousand cuts ? LabVIEW comes to mind.
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#25Reminds me of this old project..
https://netflixtechblog.com/vizceral-open-source-acc0c32113f...
I wish ^ were still alive. It was very cool and way ahead of its time.
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#26The site doesn't work, I've tried reaching it from Amsterdam, Netherlands.
First it raises an issue with the certificate, then it's blocked by the ISP. Very strange.
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#27Wow, I'm glad that I visited HN when your tool was at the top. I'm going to use it to illustrate docs on our internal DAG-like system. By the way, is there a simple way to export the animated diagram as a GIF?
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#28I love it, but I can't help but wonder why I almost never see complete or up to date diagrams in an enterprise or at scale software engineering setting, despite there being so many tools in this space (mermaid, uml, draw.io, graphviz, etc). I wonder what the barrier is or how to make tools like this fundamentally different so that we would see more adoption. This comes up frequently in the context of secure design re…
In my dreams, you have docs and source code in the same repo, and update both in a single pull request. In reality, confluence...
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#29This is pretty nice! Really like the choices for the Keyboard shortcuts and how they are presented.
My favorite tool for creating diagrams so far is still Drakon (try in browser: https://drakonhub.com/start-drakon).
It has the best "move element" behavior of any diagramming tool I've ever encountered (it shifts neighboring elements predictably, minimally and often in the exact way that I actually want).
gg-charts is pretty close in some respects, but still feels a bit more clunky to me, because the "move element" function gives less direct feedback, and in some cases complicates the layout more than I feel necessary.
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#30I love it, but I can't help but wonder why I almost never see complete or up to date diagrams in an enterprise or at scale software engineering setting, despite there being so many tools in this space (mermaid, uml, draw.io, graphviz, etc). I wonder what the barrier is or how to make tools like this fundamentally different so that we would see more adoption. This comes up frequently in the context of secure design re…
My take is that it's a bit worse than that: the whole doc tooling scene is a dumpster fire. I want to maintain technical documentation under revision control (same revision control system as I use for source code), and I want to be able to embed diagrams in said documents (also under revision control) and I want to wysiwyg edit those things. Amazingly in 2024 this does not exist.
Org files with embedded PlantUML blocks get close to what you want.