Draw.io is pretty great. I've started trying out RealtimeBoard.com, but haven't really got a hang of it yet.
Ask HN: What do you use for diagramming in software engineering?
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#22Omnigraffle is by far my favorite, unfortunately only available on Mac OSX. I use Windows more lately and struggled to find a comparable offering. Then discovered Lucidchart https://www.lucidchart.com/ and have grown to enjoy it quite a lot. It offers common Cisco and AWS networking icons, and has some nice exporting options and the auto-expanding canvas. There are some quirks but it is cheaper and in my opinion cleaner than Visio.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use for diagramming in software engineering?
#23Omnigraffle is by far my favorite, unfortunately only available on Mac OSX. I use Windows more lately and struggled to find a comparable offering. Then discovered Lucidchart https://www.lucidchart.com/ and have grown to enjoy it quite a lot. It offers common Cisco and AWS networking icons, and has some nice exporting options and the auto-expanding canvas. There are some quirks but it is cheaper and in my opinion clea…
They even claim to be able to import your existing g infrastructure and diagram it out, however I’ve not yet personally tested this. Lucidchart is pretty good though and has, as you pointed out, the advantage of being platform agnostic.
I do also really like Omnigraffle and that’s my first go to.
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#25draw.io. It has nice AWS add-ons too.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use for diagramming in software engineering?
#26I'll put in a plug for an offline diagramming tool that I created, Vexlio (https://vexlio.com). It has some neat features like embedded LaTeX equation editing, nice snapping, and a program mode (so you can draw diagrams in Lua code if you prefer that to mouse work).
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#27Gliffy as part of confluence (save often!) Dia for personal projects. Would be interesting to see what folks suggest re tools that are code-review friendly.
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#29I've used PlantUML for ages and that's good, but Sparx Enterprise Architecture is my goto these days because it works as a database of components as well as documentation authoring and publishing tool.
Re: Ask HN: What do you use for diagramming in software engineering?
#30yEd is my go to editor. Works on all platforms and is free.