"Plain text has been around for decades and it's here to stay." – Unsung

7 comments

• ssivark 2 hours ago
  Couldn't help riffing off on a tangent from the title (since the article is about diagramming tools)...

  Dylan Beattie has a thought-provoking presentation for anyone who believes that "plain text" is a simple / solid substrate for computing: "There's no such thing as plain text" https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/theres-no-such-thing-as... (you'll find many videos from different conferences)
• suprjami 1 hour ago
  The list at the top could be longer:

  - https://asciiflow.com/

  - https://asciidraw.github.io/

  Anybody know more?
• dlcarrier 1 hour ago
  From the title, I was not expecting a bunch of extended ASCII characters.
• OuterVale 2 hours ago
  Unsung is one of the best little blogs around. Well worth checking out the rest of the posts.
• nullhole 2 hours ago
  I have a mixed opinion of unicode, but it's hard not to love the box-drawing / block-element chars.
• edelkas 3 hours ago
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