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#22Another tool, that I used in the past (though not for business, because the license is ridiculously expensive) is yed graph editor. Out of all the tools I have ever used for making diagrams, it remains the one that is the most precise, good looking results, also supports auto-layout algorithms, and makes placement and aligning things easy, as well as allowing one to import more shapes and diagram types. Over time I accumulated quite a few collections of shapes. Too bad I can't even propose to use it at any job.
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#23Now I need a Graphviz/Dotty to TALA converter. Any good ones out there?
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#25Now I need a Graphviz/Dotty to TALA converter. Any good ones out there?
Nit: TALA could be another layout engine for graphviz but its not a format itself (I suggested this in comments above). Graphviz also doesn’t imply specific layout unless you mean “dot” that is default. So conversion is somewhat undefined. Maybe you mean graphviz language to d2, afaik there is no official, 100% loss-less automatic translator because of some subtle differences in these declarative languages
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#26KUDOS! KUDOS! and even more KUDUS! this engine is indeed excellent, and is great contribution to everyone doing architecture around the world. Would continue using it with much love and appreciation. Also - rushing myself to the donate button which leads here precisely
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#27Looks like really great tool to generate some graphs and diagrams for static file blogs.
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#28The 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.
For the first one, Elk makes it obvious that everything is flowing into “database” or “reports.” This seems like an important part of the design.
The post mentions that it doesn’t do DAG as well as Dagre or Elk, so, known and honestly stated limitation. I wonder if it would have been better to start with the SoC or AWS example, though.
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#29CSS must be the hardest technology out there, because people write these algorithms yet their site breaks completely on iOS safari on an iPhone SE2. Reminded me of when Linear’s CEO shared a post on Twitter bragging about how they only hired the best devs, and then I sent a screenshot of their homepage with a broken horizontal scroll. They dismissed it as a fault on my end for having an unsupported device. Turns out…
css actually is hard, but layout is hard in general. it's a surprisingly difficult and computationally expensive problem to do things that look instinctively easy to humans.
Ironic given the product is a layout engine.
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#30This actually looks great. have to try it out!