D2 - Text markup language

D2, aka Declarative Diagramming, is a text markup language created in 1995.

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D2 is a domain-specific language (DSL) that stands for Declarative Diagramming. Declarative, as in, you write in text what you want diagrammed, we generate it.

Tags: text markup language
Early development of D2 happened in Terrastruct, Inc
See also: (1 related languages) DOT
Read more about D2 on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

aws: {
  load_balancer -> api
  api -> db
}
gcloud: {
  auth -> db
}

gcloud -> aws

explanation: |md
  # Why do we use AWS?
  - It has more uptime than GCloud
  - We have free credits
| {
  near: aws
}