beka valentinehey Mastodon! what's a good tool for generating diagrams from code? preferably some diagram-oriented DSL that can be embedded in Markdown. i know of Mermaids but it has a very restricted class of diagrams it can draw which kind of sucks.
Ricocotam@beka_valentine I used to work with Tikz with LaTeX if it helps
#[deprecated] Qyriad@ricocotam @beka_valentine if OP is looking for Obsidian compatible specifically the Tikz plugin is a bit jank sometimes — particularly you can't use MathJAX inside Tikz blocks
@ricocotam @beka_valentine (at least last we checked)
Bruno@beka_valentine plantuml maybe
Gordon Oliver@bbigras @beka_valentine There is an IntelliJ plugin for generating PlantUML diagrams (full disclosure, I haven’t tried it, but I do like PlantUML)
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@beka_valentine deoxygen or tikz
Boarders@beka_valentine might be an option if you can use pandoc for your setup: https://github.com/diagrams/diagrams-pandoc
GitHub - diagrams/diagrams-pandoc: A pandoc filter to express diagrams inline using the haskell EDSL diagrams.
A pandoc filter to express diagrams inline using the haskell EDSL diagrams. - GitHub - diagrams/diagrams-pandoc: A pandoc filter to express diagrams inline using the haskell EDSL diagrams.
e8johan@beka_valentine I've used plantuml and graphviz. Both are text based and play nice with Makefiles and git.
Kapil Agrawal@beka_valentine have you tried https://diagrams.mingrammer.com ? Pure Python no DSL so not sure if that solves your use case
Chung-chieh Shan 單中杰@beka_valentine graphviz is the classic
Daniel Feldman@beka_valentine plantUML AND you can use ChatGPT to write it in English
Eu-grin Seal-geene@beka_valentine plantuml and the mkdocs ecosystem is probably what you're after. Very good DX
jneen collective@beka_valentine tikz is terrible and awful and the worst and best, most expressive piece of software i've ever used. good luck
Alex Rampp@beka_valentine I mostly use PlantUML, there are also great extension for all sorts of diagrams. See https://plantuml.com/
jerry@beka_valentine well there's GraphViz dot...but its a bit unwieldy imo
https://graphviz.org/docs/layouts/dot/
Let me know what you find if you want, I'm also curious.
@beka_valentine looks like dot is actually a generic format. I've only used it with Graphviz tho.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT_(graph_description_language)
Ben Zanin@beka_valentine @dalias I'm kind of partial to Pikchr¹, a super simple graph language very reminiscent of pic². It's built into the Fossil version control system³ and can render diagrams in markdown files committed to the repo⁴ or stored anywhere else in its collaboration tools, but it's also a one-line command to render them as SVG files with a pre-commit hook if you're using git.
¹: https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/homepage.md
²: https://pikchr.org/home/doc/trunk/doc/differences.md
³: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki
⁴: https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/embeddeddoc.wiki