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Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?

61 points ttd | 2 comments | 12 Mar 25 14:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.579s | source

I've been working on a diagramming tool [1] and wanted to get some thoughts from people who regularly make architecture and other technical diagrams. I know my own experiences but I'm quite curious to hear others.

I'm guessing for a lot of people draw.io and Excalidraw are probably the go-to. If you use draw.io (or something else), what do you like about it, or what do you wish was better?

[1] - https://app.vexlio.com/ for the curious

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shagmin ◴[12 Mar 25 14:36 UTC] No.43343729[source]▶
For work especially if it's for a large audience I use Visio or GraphViz. For my own consumption (and a couple co-workers) I really prefer mermaidjs, especially just to have it embedded in markdown files.
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1. ttd ◴[12 Mar 25 14:47 UTC] No.43343850[source]▶
For your large audience cases - do those typically go in one-off presentations or are they for more long-lived things (design docs, customer-facing docs, etc)?
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2. shagmin ◴[13 Mar 25 12:22 UTC] No.43352545[source]▶
Where I work now 95% of the time it's long-lived things - design docs, architecture diagrams, etc.,.