- no diffs
- no line attributions
- no easy versioning
- no discussions about whether something should be pushed 10 px to the right
- no reshuffling a whole diagram after you've changed something - no diffs
- no line attributions
- no easy versioning
- no discussions about whether something should be pushed 10 px to the right
- no reshuffling a whole diagram after you've changed something - no need to use a shitty office 365 web app (sluggish, slow to load, trusting 10 CDNs)
- ppt is not a graph tool, have fun moving things around after creating a diagram
- no need to rely on proprietary software
- no need to log in anywhere
- no costs
Agree with others that Mermaid and PlantUML are very useful, but sometimes you need high degrees of visual customization that they don’t give.
I agree with that and it is the reason I have not yet adopted using Mermaid more.
Would be nice to have Mermaid output some form of standard XML describing the graph and then being able to edit it with a graph editing tool.
I often use yEd for making diagrams, but it is not free/libre software. Still the most capable graph editor I know. It stores graphs as XML "graphml", which is structured data of course. Now if we could have a standard format for graphs and visual attributes of graphs like graphml (maybe even graphml, if it is an open standard?) to export to, when using Mermaid, that would be awesome.