TALA Is Open-Source
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TALA Is Open-Source
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#2Thanks for that. What do you think are the key heuristics / concepts that made it standout or be more appropriate for architecture diagrams?
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#4before discovering d2, I wrote / vibe coded my own diagram generator: https://azriel.im/disposition
then after discovering it, I was too invested in my own project to switch -- the complexity in positioning nodes, routing edges to not draw over labels, taking into account nesting and rank dir gave me an appreciation for how hard these can be, and I kinda wanted my own version (plus other features)
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#5Related:
D2 Is Non-Profit
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#6I just started diagramming with d2- I'll have to try this one out!
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#7Would integrating/implementing this into graphviz be a good move or mixing wrong things?
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#8The first few graphs are impressive, it does a much tidier job. The Go queue one is objectively worse - the other versions keep services and users grouped together, as well as a left-to-right flow. The TALA version makes it look more complicated than it is.
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#9The first few graphs are impressive, it does a much tidier job. The Go queue one is objectively worse - the other versions keep services and users grouped together, as well as a left-to-right flow. The TALA version makes it look more complicated than it is.
I thought "how bad could it be" and I was quite surprised :)
That's spectacularly obfuscated in comparison to the rest.
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#10Always happy to see D2 on here! In my last job, I had to do several architecture diagrams. Learning D2 took maybe 1 day, and saved me much more time than that.