Doing weird things with D2

[zekenie]

Doing weird things with D2

[andrewh]

I'm not on this project but a prerequisite is probably understanding a bit more about the D2 parser :) If that means learning a bit more Go, that's an entry point.

Disregarding gen-ai for now, maybe a good short term goal is to compile D2 into a target that runs the services you want? You can do that by any quick and dirty means you like, you don't necessarily need to use the Go parser.

I like the idea, it just needs a bit more legwork.

[zekenie]

I've been thinking about it and i think if i can understand a json structure I could get out of the parser, then, i could do a lot of the work and treat the go/parser part as a solvable problem.

I also was thinking about it and the d2 spec doesn't quite have enough information. It's so close, though. For example with the database tables, i can't tell which column points to which table. I know that two tables are related, and I know that a column is a foreign key, but i don't know which col points to which table. i might be able to derive it from the name in some cases....

I almost wonder if I should treat D2 as an inspiration for a diagrammable prototype DSL, instead of thinking of it as the literal DSL i want. Like maybe i make a new DSL that can compile to D2 but that I have more control over.

[andrewh]

Which spec are you looking at? I had a quick search and couldn't find it.

Since this project has goals around extensibility, a JSON representation from the parser doesn't seem too far-fetched.

Happy to help as I'm keen to learn more about D2.