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by LostLetterbox2 1035 days ago
I might be becoming a greybeard but is there any reason to move away from graphviz? I appreciate text based authoring, open source code base, composability, and the longevity of the project.
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In my locked-down corporate environment, I have to get permission to install Graphviz. But, somehow, Mordac allows me to access diagrams.net/draw.io from my browser.

I came up during the WYSIWG/WYSIAYG wars, allying with the latter. But in many cases, it is easier to nudge something into alignment vs. rewriting the base code and "recompiling." That and 99.99% of people I interact with are used to dragging-and-dropping and I can't insist on an entirely different approach and tools.