D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
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Re: D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
#2A declarative language for diagrams without so much as a passing mention of Graphviz, or even Mermaid.js anywhere in the docs?
It does look like a material upgrade from Graphviz, but even so...
Re: D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
#3Looks cool. Any inherent limitations or performance issues with graphs that are very large? (20M+ elements)
Re: D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
#4The last question in the FAQ makes it clear that this can only be used in the context of their account-based online tool. Their free offering literally says "3 diagrams". Above this, the FAQ tries to compare their tool to Mermaid, Graphviz, PlantUML which are all open source, locally runnable, etc. Their comparison totally skips the fact that, because D2 can only be used in their service, a broad number of use cases (including programmatically generating diagrams inside some other application) basically aren't supported.
Seems like it could have been cool, but likely will not seriously try it because of these limits.
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Re: D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
#6The last question in the FAQ makes it clear that this can only be used in the context of their account-based online tool. Their free offering literally says "3 diagrams". Above this, the FAQ tries to compare their tool to Mermaid, Graphviz, PlantUML which are all open source, locally runnable, etc. Their comparison totally skips the fact that, because D2 can only be used in their service, a broad number of use cases…
This is a complete non starter for any regulated industry.
Shame. Mermaid works almost okay and often looks like garbage. I wish there was an open source effort somewhere to do better, or even a paid locally runnable tool that has no service connections.
Re: D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
#7The last question in the FAQ makes it clear that this can only be used in the context of their account-based online tool. Their free offering literally says "3 diagrams". Above this, the FAQ tries to compare their tool to Mermaid, Graphviz, PlantUML which are all open source, locally runnable, etc. Their comparison totally skips the fact that, because D2 can only be used in their service, a broad number of use cases…
Agreed! Interesting idea, but charging for this is not going to get them very far.
Gotta find a way to do an "open core" or similar.
Re: D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
#8See also:
https://structurizr.com/ - diagrams as code
https://c4model.com/ - C4 model for visualising software architecture
The consistency of structurizr + c4 is great for sharing information across scaled teams of teams.
Re: D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
#9Is there a declarative language or framework for creating ad-hoc GUIs that consume structured data from stdin stream and spit-out a GUI?
Like feedgnuplot [1] but not only restricted to graphs.
Re: D2: A new declarative language to turn text into diagrams
#10Time for someone to copy the good parts and implement them as FOSS. Good luck getting enterprises to pay for diagrams.