News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Show HN: A Graphviz Implementation in Rust.

Re:Show HN: A Graphviz Implementation in Rust by godisdad on Thursday March 17, 2022 @05:19PM (#30716001)
I have always loved graphviz/dot and watching the rise of mermaid and other tools is encouraging that there's more competition in the ecosystem.

But man, endlessly fiddling to fix the layouts is time I'd like back in my life

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: A Graphviz Implementation in Rust by Someone on Thursday March 17, 2022 @06:00PM (#30716331)
> But man, endlessly fiddling to fix the layouts is time I'd like back in my life

I know many engineers are perfectionists, but pick your battles. It’s not as if the alternative of manually laying out every node and edge and maintaining it is universally better.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: A Graphviz Implementation in Rust by thangalin on Thursday March 17, 2022 @07:58PM (#30717192)
> pick your battles

And your text-based diagram tools. Kroki[1] has merged block, sequence, Plant UML, packet, Mermaid, GraphViz, and numerous other textual diagram formats into a simple REST API. A while back I integrated the API into my text editor so that I could use variables inside of diagrams[2] (such as character names in a sci-fi story that are also presented in a GraphViz-based family tree).

[1]: https://kroki.io/

[2]: https://github.com/DaveJarvis/keenwrite/blob/master/docs/scr...

[ Parent | on HN ]