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Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things

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Show HN: Reladraw – A diagram language where you decide where to place things
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A text language for diagrams where you say where things go .

Try it in your browser → — edit the source on the left, watch the layout re-solve on the right. Nothing to install.

And the same diagram written down in reladraw and rendered from the text — examples/arch.reladraw , 44 statements, no coordinates anywhere in it:

Every distance in the second picture was worked out from statements like above-left of cluster.hub and between cluster.desktop1 and cluster.laptop1 . Nothing chose the arrangement; the file states it.

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