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Re: Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?

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https://mermaid.live/ ! Mostly because it lets me generate my diagrams in code rather than drawing them out by hand, which means I can version control them, as well as generate said code from human-language descriptions given to ChatGPT. Sequence diagrams are an especially favorite of mine. There are a few good options in the code to SVG (PNG, JPG, whatever) space besides Mermaid. The venerable graphviz has been arou…

Thanks for posting this. I can not t use Graphviz as the diagrams look too amateurish to be shared in a presentation . But D2 diagrams look amazing and polished. I will try it out and maybe I can finally get rid of Visio. I find working with Visio very tedious.
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