On Saturday, 1 July 2017 at 20:53:07 UTC, Cym13 wrote:
On Saturday, 1 July 2017 at 19:19:09 UTC, Jonathan Marler wrote:
On Friday, 30 June 2017 at 21:40:05 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
[...]
There's also mermaid. They have a live editor here:
https://knsv.github.io/mermaid/live_editor/
[...]
Graphviz looks nicer both as diagram and markup honnestly; the
separation in two halves make it harder to read for me compared
to the more direct approach of graphviz.
I'm not an expert, but from what I've read mermaid has some nice
tools that make it easy to integrate into websites such as
styling via CSS and javascript libraries that convert mermaid to
SVG. This allows graphics to be generated on the client side
(kinda cool). Since the graphs are styled via CSS a website
could make sure all their graphs are styled consistently, and the
style can be changed without having to regenerate the graphic.
I've used both GraphViz and Mermaid a little, I opted to use
mermaid recently because of the live editor, didn't have to
download any tools and saw my results right away which was very
convenient. I've also used GraphViz which was nice but had it's
own quirks. I'm also not sure if GraphViz supports sequence
diagrams, that might be why I found mermaid in the first place.
Not sure which one is better, would be good to get an opinion
from someone who was a good amount of experience with both. I'm
not sure what you meant in your comment by "the separation in two
halves make it harder to read"....I've rewritten the same graph
so it looks more like the GraphViz version:
graph BT
mutable --> const
inout_const[inout const] --> const
inout --> inout_const
immutable --> inout_const
immutable --> inout_shared_const[inout shared const]
inout_shared[inout shared] --> inout_shared_const
shared --> shared_const[shared const]
inout_shared_const --> shared_const
