d2

I think the founder/lead developer, Alexander Wang, works at OpenAI now. Plus, according to this comment on an issue, folks in their discord say it's not being actively maintained. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/2735#issuecomment-4...

I agree that it's nicer and more powerful, but it's a little concerning it hasn't had any commits in the past 6 months: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/commits/master/

Coauthor of D2 here. Lately I've been noodling on the idea of expanding the animation capabilities. I think out loud a bit here, and if you have thoughts, would love to hear them: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/discussions/2677

I always liked D2 more than mermaid, except IMO, this makes grid layouts essentially useless: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/1164 Having to figure out the exact pixel widths defeats the point of these tools, at least for me.

It switches to ELK: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/d2cli/main.go#...

They were working on a wasm version some time ago I believe [0]. Not sure how usable this is insofar, but it may be of interest. [0]: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/436/files

I work on the D2 project ([0]) and we switched from other Javascript runners (v8go) to Goja. Using a JS runtime with a dependency on cgo means your Go program loses the (huge) benefit of cross-compiling to different architectures, since at build time it gets linked to the current system's libc. If you're interested in some production code with Goja, this is our code for calling RoughJS ([1]) from Go in order to produce the hand-drawn diagram look: [2] [0] https://github.com/terrastruct/d2 [1] https://roughjs.com/ [2] https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/d2renderers/d2...

D2 is my current favorite: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2

Looks great! Giving it a try, posted a $220 bounty: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/921

we embed some CSS in SVG outputs to make animated diagrams for our text-to-diagram language: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/releases/tag/v0.3.0

Right. It's okay to leave written documentation on SaaS (e.g. Notion), because the text is the artifact. If they're shutting down, or I don't like them anymore, I just move the text. But if Ilograph goes down, all I have is useless YAML. Our team went through this thought process when we decided to open source our text-to-diagram language, users need to be able to reproduce their docs even if we shut down (https://github.com/terrastruct/d2).