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…to this comment on an issue, folks in their discord say it's not being actively maintained. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/2735#issuecomment-4...

comment by 16bitvoid · 2026-04-15 · in Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor

…and more powerful, but it's a little concerning it hasn't had any commits in the past 6 months: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/commits/master/

comment by neuronexmachina · 2026-04-15 · in Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor

…capabilities. I think out loud a bit here, and if you have thoughts, would love to hear them: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/discussions/2677

comment by alixanderwang · 2025-10-26 · in D2: Diagram Scripting Language

I always liked D2 more than mermaid, except IMO, this makes grid layouts essentially useless: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/1164 Having to figure out the exact pixel widths defeats the point of these tools, at least for me.

comment by lidavidm · 2025-08-20 · in D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders

It switches to ELK: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/d2cli/main.go#...

comment by alixanderwang · 2025-08-20 · in D2 (text to diagram tool) now supports ASCII renders

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story by klaussilveira · 2025-04-02 · 1 comment

…our code for calling RoughJS ([1]) from Go in order to produce the hand-drawn diagram look: [2] [0] https://github.com/terrastruct/d2 [1] https://roughjs.com/ [2] https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/d2renderers/d2...

comment by alixanderwang · 2024-09-06 · in Goja: A Golang JavaScript Runtime

D2 is my current favorite: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2

comment by thusjustin · 2024-01-15 · in Penrose – Create diagrams by typing notation in plain text

Looks great! Giving it a try, posted a $220 bounty: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/921

comment by alixanderwang · 2023-04-02 · in Show HN: Algora – Paid open-source contributions

we embed some CSS in SVG outputs to make animated diagrams for our text-to-diagram language: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/releases/tag/v0.3.0

comment by alixanderwang · 2023-03-31 · in When SVG almost got network support for raw sockets

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story by alixanderwang · 2023-03-30 · 0 comments

…our text-to-diagram language, users need to be able to reproduce their docs even if we shut down ( https://github.com/terrastruct/d2 ).

comment by alixanderwang · 2023-03-25 · in Concrete Diagramming, a Lightweight Alternative to C4

https://github.com/terrastruct/d2

comment by alixanderwang · 2023-03-19 · in Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts

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Diagrams that change colors for dark mode preference

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story by alixanderwang · 2023-02-24 · 0 comments

…in Terrastruct ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhxVVkxv2Ns ), which uses the open-source D2 ( https://github.com/terrastruct/d2 ) for its code

comment by alixanderwang · 2023-01-12 · in Architecture diagrams should be code

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story by alixanderwang · 2022-12-31 · 0 comments

…y.d2lang.com/?script=PNCxCsJADIfxPU_xH1uk4NzBJwlI... I'm not familiar with EPS. Will investigate, ty. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/489

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-12-21 · in D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML

…it's been almost 100% fixing/improving things the community's surfaced. Long list of stuff here: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/releases . Re fonts: that README is for contributing fonts. I'm not sure what the best solution is for…

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-12-21 · in D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML

…fonts, one has to recompile the code with appropriate .tff files? It's shortly mentioned [1]. [1] https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/tree/master/d2renderers/d2...

comment by sendfoods · 2022-12-21 · in D2 language, open source alternative to PlantUML

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story by alixanderwang · 2022-12-08 · 0 comments

You can trivially sidestep this with a main shell function called at the end of your script. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/729b12685af79bbdaf4b3...

comment by nhooyr · 2022-12-02 · in The Audacity of Piping Curl to Bash

…be packed with features/improvements/fixes that came from feedback received on HN from the launch: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/ci/release/cha... https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/259

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-12-01 · in Text to Diagram Tools

Since it's not mentioned, we also use as TODOs/issue-tracker. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues We actually switched from Linear to Github Issues because of how nice it is to have the TODOs colocated with PRs and code. I suspect…

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-28 · in Open Source and Saying “No”

…so latex would just be another language tag. you can follow here and be notified when it's ready: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/135

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-24 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…windows now has a POSIX shell interpreter? We're likely going to add a chocolatey package too. See https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/96 See https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.m...

comment by nhooyr · 2022-11-23 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…to help, we're trying to figure some of these configs here in case something stands out to you! https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/95

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

elkjs is an alternative! https://github.com/terrastruct/d2#plugins . we haven't gotten the defaults to look as good though

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

ty for the suggestion, our designer will come up with some! https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/158

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…API, so you should be able to transpile from other graph libraries easily. see the second half of https://github.com/terrastruct/d2#d2-as-a-library

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

we'll get this up next week. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/96

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

love this idea. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/153

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

Whoops, sorry. I opened https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/140 to address. For now, we zoomed the gif in so you can see it better. And we added a syntax example front and center.

comment by nhooyr · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…subsantially older, you'll probably have to install from source due to the c dependencies. See https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.m...

comment by nhooyr · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

yeah there's overhead with the fonts bundled in. we might change this, https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/discussions/132 i wasn't aware you could selectively choose characters for fonts, but that'd be ideal

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

this is coming soon to D2: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/91

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…(if any) to D2's plugin system to make integration easy. (created a Github Discussion to track. https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/discussions/138 . if there's enough demand, we'll do it ourselves)

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…until it's publicly released. if this is a blocker, feel free to watch this issue to be notified! https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/99

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…the importance of ecosystem. e.g. a proof of concept plugin to make diagrams look hand-drawn: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/91

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…are a wip, but to the larger point, D2 has a plugin system which enables extensions like this ( https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/pull/91 ). there's still some fleshing out to do with the API, but once it's up, it should be a…

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…alternative to Mermaid etc. Thanks for open-sourcing your core! I really like the cheat sheet: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/docs/assets/ch...

comment by davidkunz · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

…are plans for Win* release? yep. should be in a week or so, along with other installation stuff: https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.m...

comment by alixanderwang · 2022-11-22 · in D2, a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams, is now open source

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