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Re: YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams

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Post by asicsp »

mcqueenjordan wrote: post #2

Anyone familiar with PlantUML[1]? That's been my goto for declarative text-based diagramming. I've always thought "there really could be a better tool," but I've never found anything better than PlantUML. I don't think YUML is going to be my answer, though -- it's paid and doesn't seem to be a local tool, but rather a SaaS model. This product feels like it should be a local compile-into-image workflow. But that's pro…

I haven't personally used it so far, but check out mermaid[1] which I bookmarked from a HN[2] discussion

[1] https://mermaidjs.github.io/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16889181

Re: YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams

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Post by frabert »

Off topic, but seeing the word "embeddable" in this context reminds me of old Microsoft OLE. It was kind of cool being able to drag an excel table inside an Access form, together with a media player and stuff like that...

Re: YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams

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Post by afandian »

andreareina wrote: post #17
lnyng wrote: post #3

Not exactly for the same purpose, but anyone knows about Graphviz [1]? Super expressive and you can visualize online in viz.js [2]. [1] https://www.graphviz.org/ [2] http://viz-js.com/

Graphviz is one of the things that I make sure is installed when I get a new computer, along with PlatUML (also mentioned).

Don't buy a Mac then. Apple managed to break the build on the latest version.

Re: YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams

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Post by noir_lord »

tomc1985 wrote: post #18
mcqueenjordan wrote: post #2

Anyone familiar with PlantUML[1]? That's been my goto for declarative text-based diagramming. I've always thought "there really could be a better tool," but I've never found anything better than PlantUML. I don't think YUML is going to be my answer, though -- it's paid and doesn't seem to be a local tool, but rather a SaaS model. This product feels like it should be a local compile-into-image workflow. But that's pro…

Honestly you're right. I'm not inclined to give the time of day to yet another SaaS project that should have been a command-line tool

Me either, I mean I pay for Netflix and Intellij out of my own pocket (even though I use the latter at work) but when it comes to SaaS I just multiply the monthly price by 12 and think "hah, no thanks".

I've no issues with paying for a SaaS but it has to provide value and this for me doesn't.

Re: YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams

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Post by blablablerg »

asicsp wrote: post #21
mcqueenjordan wrote: post #2

Anyone familiar with PlantUML[1]? That's been my goto for declarative text-based diagramming. I've always thought "there really could be a better tool," but I've never found anything better than PlantUML. I don't think YUML is going to be my answer, though -- it's paid and doesn't seem to be a local tool, but rather a SaaS model. This product feels like it should be a local compile-into-image workflow. But that's pro…

I haven't personally used it so far, but check out mermaid[1] which I bookmarked from a HN[2] discussion [1] https://mermaidjs.github.io/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16889181

graphical software (even Powerpoint) still works best IMHO

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mcqueenjordan wrote: post #2

Anyone familiar with PlantUML[1]? That's been my goto for declarative text-based diagramming. I've always thought "there really could be a better tool," but I've never found anything better than PlantUML. I don't think YUML is going to be my answer, though -- it's paid and doesn't seem to be a local tool, but rather a SaaS model. This product feels like it should be a local compile-into-image workflow. But that's pro…

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Re: YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams

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Post by unilynx »

afandian wrote: post #24
andreareina wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Graphviz is one of the things that I make sure is installed when I get a new computer, along with PlatUML (also mentioned).

Don't buy a Mac then. Apple managed to break the build on the latest version.

It's broken frequently over the years.

It's a command line tool so someone interested enough can package it up as a docker container and provide a simple wrapper script that would mostly work in-place.

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