Spongedown
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SHOW HN2016
62points
16comments
#618of 2,264 in 2016
Top 28%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool idea and useful for diagrams
From 2 comments
This is cool! Though, it still leaves me with my biggest problem: I have no idea how to efficiently draw the diagrams in the first place. Ascii diagrams are not easy to draw (for…
fizzbatter on HNThis looks very cool. Do people actually manually write ASCII diagrams like that? This is a great place to use Mermaid (https://github.com/knsv/mermaid)
replete on HN
Objections
Drawing ASCII diagrams by hand is hard
From 1 comment
This is cool! Though, it still leaves me with my biggest problem: I have no idea how to efficiently draw the diagrams in the first place. Ascii diagrams are not easy to draw (for…
fizzbatter on HN
No installation instructions; unclear how to use it
From 1 comment
Is this designed to be used or just a proof of concept? If the former then maybe some installation hints in the readme would be a good idea. As someone with no exposure to rust I…
kingosticks on HN
Requests
Text notation that converts to ASCII flow diagrams
From 1 comment
This is cool! Though, it still leaves me with my biggest problem: I have no idea how to efficiently draw the diagrams in the first place. Ascii diagrams are not easy to draw (for…
fizzbatter on HN
Opposite tool that converts diagrams back to text
From 2 comments
Looks nice, but an opposite tool would be more interesting for me.
piotrjurkiewicz on HNI'm looking forward to work on manipulating the generated SVG and reflect the change in the text diagram then render it back to SVG. But that will come a long way.
ivanceras on HN
Questions
Is this designed for use or just a proof of concept?
From 1 comment
Is this designed to be used or just a proof of concept? If the former then maybe some installation hints in the readme would be a good idea. As someone with no exposure to rust I…
kingosticks on HN
Do people actually write ASCII diagrams manually?
From 1 comment
This looks very cool. Do people actually manually write ASCII diagrams like that? This is a great place to use Mermaid (https://github.com/knsv/mermaid)
replete on HN
Alternatives named
Monodraw
From 2 comments
This is cool! Though, it still leaves me with my biggest problem: I have no idea how to efficiently draw the diagrams in the first place. Ascii diagrams are not easy to draw (for…
fizzbatter on HNhttps://monodraw.helftone.com is what you're looking for.
dmd on HN
GraphViz dot
From 1 comment
Have you ever tried GNU dot? http://www.graphviz.org/pdf/dotguide.pdf I know you said you don't want to 'draw' ASCII diagrams, but if you use Emacs, there's a package called…
subjectsigma on HN
PlantUML
From 1 comment
I've recently discovered plantuml[0]. It does a pretty good job for tasks centered around software design, and the language is simple, yet not too limited for my purposes. [0]…
yoo1I on HN
Mermaid
From 1 comment
This looks very cool. Do people actually manually write ASCII diagrams like that? This is a great place to use Mermaid (https://github.com/knsv/mermaid)
replete on HN
Markdeep
From 1 comment
My favorite take on this is Markdeep: http://casual-effects.com/markdeep/
binarycrusader on HN
ASCIIFlow
From 1 comment
I've used this for quick-and-dirty ASCII diagrams. They might need a bit of touching up to be usable with Spongedown. http://asciiflow.com/
mpicker0 on HN
websequencediagrams
From 1 comment
This tool does that for sequence diagrams: https://www.websequencediagrams.com
tlarkworthy on HN