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		causal on July 15, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We need visual programming. No, not like that +1 I'd add versioning and diff tools as another critical advantage for text. If your visual tool can't provide a superior diff experience, then it's dead on arrival for most serious projects.

rbanffy on July 16, 2024 [–]

I have a hard time trying to convince people to use things like PlantUML to “write” diagrams, but Gliphy is much too popular.

causal on July 16, 2024 | [–]

I wish Github READMEs had native PlantUML support. My go to is MermaidJS for that reason.

rbanffy on July 17, 2024 | | [–]

Mermaid is a bit more limited.

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