2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30273299
2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27536253
But now on web!
If you look at tooling companies annual revenue
- Atlassian: 1.4B - Jetbrains: 400M - Vercel: 100M - Supabase: 16M - Prisma: 10M (maybe?)
We dive into the long tail quickly. I would be very surprised if Monodraw make more than 1M a year. At that revenue, it's going to be hard to expand into a multi-platform / web strategy (especially if your existing product is platform-locked).
How would what it generates be any different than what you wrote?
Edit: Oh apparently it was "Monodraw". There was yet another one besides that. I am all up for such tools. What was the name of the one that allowed you to specify the diagrams using some custom DSL which in turn would generate the diagrams themselves?
I think the recent one on HN that meets that description was D2 (https://d2lang.com/), though that description fits a lot of tools.
Note to self: IIRC author said I can do it locally from browser now, should work without connectivity.
staplung•5mo ago
Which is probably more useful anyway given that if it really outputted ASCII encoded line drawing characters, you'd end up with gibberish on a system that assumed UTF-8 encoding.
ilovetux•5mo ago
> The first 128 characters of Unicode, which are the same as the ASCII character set (characters 0-127), are encoded in UTF-8 using a single byte with the exact same binary value as their ASCII representation. This means that any file containing only ASCII characters is also a valid UTF-8 file
em3rgent0rdr•5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
staplung•5mo ago
Now, technically, ASCII only concerns the lower 127 characters. There's no single standard definition as to what the upper half of the byte space represents in ASCII itself so technically it's true that all valid ASCII files are valid UTF-8. By the same logic however, the box drawing characters are not ASCII. They're actually part of something called code page 437, which maps those bit patterns to box drawing characters. With other code pages they map to something else, often non-Latin characters or ones with accents.
So, the name ASCII flow is misleading and the the output options are too. ;-) Basically, if the high bit is set in UTF-8 it indicates that more than one byte is needed to represent the code point.
ilovetux•5mo ago
numpad0•5mo ago
craftkiller•5mo ago
Also confirmed with hexl-mode (hex editor in emacs)
16bytes•5mo ago
OP is asking what are the line-drawing characters encoded as e.g: "┌" and "┐".
Since the charset returned by the app is UTF-8, these will be interpreted and encoded as UTF-8 and not whatever "ASCII - Extended" means.
numpad0•5mo ago
1: https://gist.github.com/numpad0/7880ad1e3ed32b91d1ccf9c3374f...