Mastering Layout Engines in Graphviz: Dot vs. Neato vs. Twopi vs. Circo

What's your use case for it? For manual diagrams, making an explanatory diagram for a presentation or something I would never recommend it. Declaratively typing out all your information is going to take just as long as setting it directly in drawio, but with less control over the result.

Where graphviz/dot has always shined for me is you have some application built around a data flow graph and occasionally need to debug a run with 50+ nodes at a time. So you write a file dumper for your structure. A visual makes understanding the structure so much faster, and nothing else seems to produce layouts nearly as good as dot.

Depends on your use case. If i want to export some graph data structure from a program to visualise it for debugging purposes, graphviz is way more relevant than doing it by hand in drawio.

But if I'm making a presentation for a conference I would choose differently. And in between you get a whole spectrum of tradeoffs.

It's a sales website with a not-terrible hook.

Also AI generated diagrams with strange labelling doesn't persuade me much.