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One thing I've wanted for ages (and might like to write but will likely never find time) is something that does drawio/viso-like diagram manipulation but works in ASCII/Unicode, defaults to text output, and maintains limits (forcing the grid granularity and sufficient spacing for connectors) to make that practical even if offering a more “graphical” output and edit experience.
I've seen a few tools that let you draw diagrams in ASCII/unicode but they have all been more akin to paint than drawio, in that you can't edit objects or move them around after placing, and have connectors & such reflow.
It would be useful for dropping diagrams into otherwise text-only media (flow and table diagrams in readme files, adding table diagrams on dba.stackoverflow without needing to instead link to a graphic or edit more by hand, ...) while allowing a prettier output (as SVG or a bitmap) for where that is relevant. If anyone knows of such a tool I've missed that they can point me to, or wants to go away and write one for me, please do!
It would be kinda neat to store only the output in, say, a readme file or whatever, and not have to have a second file with the input.
Would you had any ideas how to do it? I guess: 1. some custom logic very difficult to write for every translators. 2. some genetic algorithm to reconstruct the input, given the output, using the string levenshtein distance.
Every translators are independants, so this would require
Its name "diagon" has not been a great choice. It means (Diagram online). It is not really easy to discover it on google search unfortunately.
