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Re:Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization langua... by theK on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @02:47PM (#48835804)
> Json as a common language for human in visualization has been around for a while

Plant, Mermaid, Graphviz are all declarative textual representations designed for human authoring, JSON is made for tools. Its not a criticism just a statement that if interop across agent and human was intended this is not the simplest option.

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Re:Show HN: Microsoft releases Flint, a visualization langua... by chenglong-hn on Wednesday July 08, 2026 @03:03PM (#48836030)
right, in fact many small models still struggle with following json, some new forms are also needed
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