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Re:Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling ... by inferiorhuman on Saturday February 15, 2020 @02:56AM (#22333987)
I really liked monodraw but am reluctant to pay for a license now that it's more or less been abandoned. I still like it, but only bought a copy for work at megacorp and foolishly didn't put it in my name.
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Re:Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling ... by patrec on Saturday February 15, 2020 @07:03AM (#22334750)
I'm not sure I understand this attitude. It's a pitty it failed commercially. But it's a great app that only costs a tenner and works well (probably way better than any available alternative). And it can "save" as text, so it's not like you're going to lose all your work.

Surely, a good investment for anyone above minimum wage who does ascii art periodically on a mac?

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Re:Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling ... by dewey on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:38AM (#22336235)
What makes you think it's abandoned? The author is active on Twitter, the last update for dark mode was in May 2019 and I don't see any show stopper bugs or crashes on Catalina. Small utilities like this don't need an update every month. I bought it a while ago because

1) It's very cheap and a great show case for a small niche Mac app that's both beautiful and works well

2) The two times per year I use it, it's already worth it and fun to play around with.

https://blog.helftone.com

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Re:Svgbob – convert ASCII diagrams to SVG, now with styling ... by inferiorhuman on Saturday February 15, 2020 @06:49PM (#22338852)
What makes you think it's abandoned?

The last blog entry I saw was that it's been put into maintenance mode. If your interest has fizzled but you still want to keep the product out there, that's a great use case for open source. I'm just not that inclined to pay for something that's not being actively developed.

Obviously at some point last year it got a new feature (yay). That speaks to the app itself being feature incomplete.

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