Couldn't help riffing off on a tangent from the title (since the article is about diagramming tools)...<p>Dylan Beattie has a thought-provoking presentation for anyone who believes that "plain text" is a simple / solid substrate for computing: <i>"There's no such thing as plain text"</i> <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/theres-no-such-thing-as-plain-text-dylan-beattie/249952971" rel="nofollow">https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/theres-no-such-thing-as...</a> (you'll find many videos from different conferences)
The list at the top could be longer:<p>- <a href="https://asciiflow.com/" rel="nofollow">https://asciiflow.com/</a><p>- <a href="https://asciidraw.github.io/" rel="nofollow">https://asciidraw.github.io/</a><p>Anybody know more?
From the title, I was not expecting a bunch of extended ASCII characters.
Unsung is one of the best little blogs around. Well worth checking out the rest of the posts.
I have a mixed opinion of unicode, but it's hard not to love the box-drawing / block-element chars.
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