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I hate these tools. They are all terrible and full of friction. So much pointing and clicking and zooming out and back in. They require so much effort for so little pay off. And they constantly nag you about features you dgaf about. I just wanna draw some boxes, put some text in them and connect them with lines, ffs.
If I want to do so textually
useful for very large, automatically-laid-out-diagrams, such as those generated automatically
I'll use graphviz.
e.g.
foo.dot:
And then:
produces:
XACTLY. Unfortunately, my company won't accept that as a valid diagramming tool. It must be in lucid's shit. I've built some really cool exploratory tools using graphviz including a logical data dependency graph from database schema using a bit of (g)awk. Could navigate the graph in a browser because I had it spit out HTML.
This has been my experience as well. Designers love to slop it up in them because there's no versioning or any way to tell what something looked like when it was actually developed. It's seemingly impossible to set and maintain scope in them. Figma has some versioning support, but it's probably the worst of all of them from a "which board are you even talking about?" perspective because they have 8000 C&P'd Figma boards all of which contain similar things and the links are 1500 character URLs with a bunch of UUIDs in them.