Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development

Re:Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to sof... by imiric on Thursday June 15, 2023 @01:51PM (#36344170)

I find Mermaid's syntax difficult to use and understand past the simplest examples. I've also run into some strange edge cases with it, but can't remember the details right now.

Out of these text-to-diagram tools, D2's syntax seems the friendliest to me. See https://text-to-diagram.com/.

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Re:Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to sof... by MilStdJunkie on Thursday June 15, 2023 @03:28PM (#36345313)

Is there a way to get a git diagram out of D2? It does have nicely streamlined syntax.

One thing that worries me is that the profusion of text-based graph description languages will result in a family of software that's unparseable due to its success. We have Graphviz, GNUplot, PlantUML, BlockDiag, Mermaid, Kroki, Vega, and too many others to count - but we don't have a Pandoc.

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Re:Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to sof... by MikeSchurman on Friday June 16, 2023 @10:30AM (#36357119)

pandia has a nice ring to it, wikipedia:

In Greek mythology, the goddess Pandia or Pandeia was a daughter of Zeus and the goddess Selene, the Greek personification of the moon.

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