This app has no dependency on native OS for anything beyond writing data. It doesn't need to compile heavy code bases, it doesn't need fast GPU or other access. It could have very well been an electron app, and it would have the benefit of being widely available on many platforms.
I'd love to be able to use this app, but as a Linux and Windows user, I'm unable to. So I'll be searching for an alternative that runs on the platforms I have access to.
That said, no hate on the author for building the tool to their needs and desires. It's a fantastic looking app, and looks well executed. Wish I could use it.
To have the same great native feeling UI you’d need to use AppKit - not HTML.
Don’t get me started at the usual shortcuts and general platform behavior most electron apps get wrong.
There's nothing so intensive about it that it needs to be an Electron app either. It could just have easily been a cross-platform native app as well.
It's an interesting choice to do native.
That said, very impressive work.
So, I'll try to get to it eventually but no promises on timeline.
I've been told it was used for wire-framing and mind-mapping which I never envisioned!
Moebius is a new ANSI and ASCII Editor for MacOS, Windows, and Linux.
With a neat Moebius Server feature that allows collaboration by multiple users on the same canvas through a server instance.
Not a cross-platform, but JavaScript-extension with cross-platform Chromium browser bundled.
Still works well though.
Granted, it sounds like the author feels like there are more meaningful things to add or change, but that doesn't mean the software is any less relevant than it was 3 years back.
Then started using monodraw. Love it.
A couple of workflow tips for using Monodraw:
* Open a few docs in Monodraw at a time and leave them open for your different needs: text boxes, figlets, diagrams. Each with a few elements already waiting to be filled, cut & pasted, etc.
* For larger docs (e.g. newsletters) finish the writing in your text editor and bring it into Monodraw. Think Publisher or InDesign. Yeah, you can edit in here, but it's weird. Best for layout.
* Browse the sample file that opens by default when you load Monodraw. Good fodder in there.
* Snippets!
* Yes, it is just text but there is FILL to give order (front to back) of elements. This is really handy for making slides that expose a list one item at a time.
* Cut and Paste chunks in and out of your Monodraw file with your main document or take a clipped screen capture for dropping into a graphic or fancy format document (e.g. Illustrator). No need to export and paste.
Locking should prompt you on any attempt to change the document to unlock or duplicate.
Stationary Pad will automatically create a local copy when you open the file, and instead open that copy.
<div aria-role="img" aria-label="{your alt-text here}">
<pre>...</pre>
</div>
> ...most screenreaders will consider the element with role="img" set on it to be to be like a black box, and not access the individual elements inside it.
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...)
Here is a sample chapter from the book (in PDF) - https://compilerbook.com/sample.pdf
What I did more recently is to use Monodraw to create diagrams of CFGs and put those next to the test cases (see [0] or [1]) which exercise those graphs - the power of ASCII, you can just copy the graphs into your code.
[0]: https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/1363053307409932288 [1]: https://twitter.com/thorstenball/status/1368802505963016197
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDbi56U5qRw&ab_channel=gnuma...
But actually more often I've needed things like https://github.com/weidagang/text-diagram as it is much easier to maintain
But I actually need more types of diagrams, so slowly, as one of many little side projects, I've been building a little library for all kinds of ascii diagram generation
X
/ \
/ \ X
| |--------+ / \
\ / | / \
\ / +-------->| |
V \ /
+--------------------+ \ /
|lkjhlkjhlkjh lkjh | ---+ V
+--------------------+ | +--------------------+
+---> |lkjhlkjhlkjh lkjh |
+--------------------+Some past threads:
Show HN: Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545252 - May 2015 (53 comments)
Monodraw: Powerful ASCII Art Editor for Developers (Mac) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9145945 - March 2015 (3 comments)
Show HN: Monodraw for Mac, ASCII Art Editor – Beta Available - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9138039 - March 2015 (11 comments)
ASCII art editor designed for the Mac - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8445087 - Oct 2014 (107 comments)
This allows you to write Markdown-style documents, including ASCII-art diagrams, but which render beautifully in any browser with JavaScript. Using Monodraw or ASCIIFlow as the front-end editor, you can drop most results in a Markdeep document. Bonus: good inline math typesetting plus loads of other awesome document features.
git://bitreich.org/gramscii
Anyway Monodraw is just awesome in its own way, and I really like the easy way you can draw stuff in it, ASCII is so restricting it simplifies design decisions for us art plebs quite a bit. I just wish there could be a way to export it as a xkcd / excalidraw style PNG after you've done drawing.