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  • > D2 thus far has been a product of handcrafted code. That era is over. This next phase of D2 will be driven by AI. By this, I mean that all of my contributions will use AI. I welcome AI contributions and will use AI to review your AI, etc. The exception is writing -- I will author all blog posts and comms without AI.

    Really cool, seems like the right balance.

    by triyambakam
  • Oh, does that already integrate with GitHub? Need to check how it deals with layouts and arrows in comparison to Mermaid
    by nf-x
  • I like the mermaid sequence diagrams more. But D2 for everything else. No GitHub integration yet though.
    by 0x696C6961
  • Tangential, do LLMs generate D2 code as easily as Mermaid and do tools like Github and Confluence render them?
    by aitchnyu
  • I'm confused - why is hackclub (a project dedicated to teens) financing this project maintained by an openai infra person?
    by _def
  • that's what i'm thinking, this doesn't seem to be a teenager to me based off of them saying that they've been programming for 10 years ( though i suppose they could have started when they were <= 8 years old ), but i can't really find any information on who exactly the founder is, or why hackclub would sponsor them.
    by derpyzza
  • They sponsor many popular software projects unrelated to their mission. It helps bring awareness to what they do and they also take a 7% cut of donations to fund their operations. I probably could've elaborated on this more in the post. See https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit, which goes more in depth and is how I first became aware of them!
    by alixanderwang
  • So is TALA[1] continuing to be developed and/or being open sourced?

    [1] https://github.com/terrastruct/TALA

    by sea-gold
  • In the post it says "I'll be making posts as TALA and D2 Studio are released." so I assume/hope so?
    by dacort
  • Yes, I'm planning to open-source it tomorrow.
    by alixanderwang
  • How does D2 handle larger diagrams with lots of connections?

    This has been my issue with PlantUML and Mermaid. The routing tends to blow up when you have a bunch of lines that run out to a thing (i.e. rather than snaking together they just go everywhere).

    by OneDeuxTriSeiGo
  • Yeah unfortunately it doesn't handle hypergraphs IIRC, i.e. one edge going from a single node to multiple other nodes.
    by IshKebab
  • Really happy to see this - A few months ago the D2 `play` site looked like it was down or unreachable and I was pretty bummed. It came back, but it did make me wonder about the future of the project - awesome to see that TALA will be released, sorry to hear the company behind it is shutting down.
    by dacort
  • > D2 thus far has been a product of handcrafted code. That era is over. This next phase of D2 will be driven by AI. By this, I mean that all of my contributions will use AI.

    This is an interesting twist. While I get the rationale, I remain a bit concerned. I do hope the project remains successful, d2 is great!

    by wps
  • This is going to be really interesting.

    What does the future of new programming languages look like in the era of AI?

    by margalabargala
  • Just to be clear, this doesn't seem to be based on Walter Bright's D language. Maybe people already know that, but I didn't.
    by aninteger
  • It's pretty clear when you visit the website though.
    by keyle