I am generally discontent with the state of diagraming tools. They are clunky, lock you into their format and end up making unmaintainable or unintelligible diagrams.

So, I made a new tool that combines code-based diagraming with manual layout. The hope is to get the maintainability of code and the visual clarity of of hand-crafted layouts.

Give it a try and let me know your feedback. I made is as a desktop tool because there should be no reason to need to be online to use it. But I understand it limits it's accessibility. If there enough interest I may invest some time in making an online version.

So far I used it in my professional life and it saves some time and headaches.

I hope you find it interesting.

Get the release in the GitHub page or read my rant bout diagrams.

https://github.com/Sotilrac/daedalus/releases