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For anyone interested in generating diagrams from text, I recommend also taking a look at Graphviz[1] and PlantUML[2]. Graphviz excels at box-and-arrow kind of diagrams as well as graphs, I frequently use it to visually map out dependencies, processes and state transitions, etc. There's an online version here[3]. PlantUML I use less, both because it's slower (you pay the JVM startup tax on every invocation) and because I have less use for the kind of diagrams it specializes in.

[1] https://graphviz.com

[2] http://plantuml.com

[3] https://dreampuf.github.io/GraphvizOnline/



A quick correction to citation:

[1] https://www.graphviz.org/


Plantuml is pretty good because it like a mini programming language for diagrams, and not just UML. There's also UMLet which I often read recommend.



graphviz: rock solid, and bindings for just about every language




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