D2: Diagram Scripting Language

Re:D2: Diagram Scripting Language by snowfield on Sunday October 26, 2025 @03:28AM (#45709796)

Love d2, using it for years. I use it whenever someone asks me to create a visualisation. And I regularly tell people about d2 trying to push it internally haha

Enterprise is way too expensive though. And I can't natively render it anywhere. So I'm limited to only personal use.

3000usd / year for a single TALA license is... Well, not justifiable. And I'm not sure how much d2 studio is on top...

I'd love to test TALA though, but even the personal license at 120usd is steep for drawing some stuff.

Just giving a helm chart or system description to an llm and having it one shot a perfect diagram which code I can easily view and edit is also a big gamechanger for me

Sucks to not have it just render natively anywhere, I think confluence cloud can do it. But I think the add on is a paid addon.

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Re:D2: Diagram Scripting Language by ris on Sunday October 26, 2025 @06:23AM (#45710599)

I can't be the only one to find the TALA output to be the worst of all the engines. I almost always end up using ELK.

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Re:D2: Diagram Scripting Language by alixanderwang on Sunday October 26, 2025 @11:11AM (#45712514)

We have examples here, though I need to add more.

https://d2lang.com/examples/elk/

I like ELK's output better sometimes too, e.g. the Golang Queue example. Choice is good

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