I will grant this: that's a brilliant name and domain.
Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor
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#12How does the agent session thing work? Server-side you proxy requests to client via websockets or something? How does the agent see the client-side data?
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#13https://d2lang.com/ is a nicer language than Mermaid with much nicer visual appearance. It would be great if it became more widely supported.
What makes it nicer?
Take a look at https://d2lang.com/examples/dagre/ and https://d2lang.com/tour/intro/
The language is richer and all diagram types are implemented consistently in the same language in a way that can be composed, as opposed to being a collection of unrelated DSLs.
The improved visual appearance is clear from inspecting example diagrams, I believe.
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#14https://d2lang.com/ is a nicer language than Mermaid with much nicer visual appearance. It would be great if it became more widely supported.
I reached the same conclusion after comparing diagram-as-code tools — D2 feels cleaner and more expressive than Mermaid.
I’ve been working on an AI diagramming tool built around D2: https://aidiagrammaker.com/ You describe a system in plain English, and it generates architecture diagrams, flowcharts, and sequence diagrams in D2.
Edits can be made either directly in the D2 code or via a context-aware editor.
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#15https://d2lang.com/ is a nicer language than Mermaid with much nicer visual appearance. It would be great if it became more widely supported.
I agree that it's nicer and more powerful, but it's a little concerning it hasn't had any commits in the past 6 months: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/commits/master/
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#16https://d2lang.com/ is a nicer language than Mermaid with much nicer visual appearance. It would be great if it became more widely supported.
Oh, finally, something that supports actual hierarchical state diagrams (that isn't Graphviz, no offense)... Mermaid's "You cannot define transitions between internal states belonging to different composite states" [1] has driven me up a wall for years.
parentA.childA -> parentB.childB: voop
parentB.childB -> parentA: vorp
[1] https://mermaid.ai/open-source/syntax/stateDiagram.html#comp...
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#17How is this one better? I thought this was going to be a visual editor where you click and edit on the diagram itself. I don't seem to be able to do that here.
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#18https://d2lang.com/ is a nicer language than Mermaid with much nicer visual appearance. It would be great if it became more widely supported.
How good is the LLM at creating d2? What if any skills/material can folks recommend? (Follow-up: D2-mcp has a cheat sheet, https://github.com/h0rv/d2-mcp/blob/main/d2/CHEATSHEET.md)
And, does GitHub support it? (Follow up: alas not! Sadness. Please add!)
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#19It's pretty but I don't know about better.
- How do you pan? Two finger sliding on the trackpad just zooms.
- Why does the diagram you're working on doesn't use all the remaining space? I picked one example and it's on a small-ish box with controls that don't seem to do anything and half of it is out the screen on the bottom
Ohh... the scroll metaphor... it's annoying. A bunch of tabs would have been better or even a one at a time with a tree somewhere.
There's too much fighting with layout where a plain interface would be better, something closer to https://mermaid.live/
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#20https://d2lang.com/ is a nicer language than Mermaid with much nicer visual appearance. It would be great if it became more widely supported.
I agree that it's nicer and more powerful, but it's a little concerning it hasn't had any commits in the past 6 months: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/commits/master/
Maybe it doesn't need constant fixing? Are there many issues in the tracker?