I had been super excited by the work on d2 (and Tala), the new language for diagrams with automated layout. I'm happy to pay a reasonable price... but their prices are currently five times higher than the cost of a Visio subscription...
A pity, in my month long trial period I used it extensively, and loved it. Crawling back to Plant UML has been all the more painful for it.
I use (and like) D2, although it’s early days and still has a few rough edges. Prefer the syntax versus Mermaid.
It’s open source, though, isn’t it? You can just install locally with brew or whatever, plus the vscode extension and you’re off to the races. You don’t then get the fancy proprietary GUI, though - that’s what you’re referring to?
Thanks! TIL. Will check it out. Dagre seems to have been okay for me, perhaps I don’t know what I’m missing.
UPDATE: Just tried out TALA. I'm in the same boat, interested only in the CLI. It definitely makes everything I've thrown at it look nicer. Would you be willing to expand a little on what you like about it versus Dagre, having had some experience with it?
A pity, in my month long trial period I used it extensively, and loved it. Crawling back to Plant UML has been all the more painful for it.