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> Racket's graph library can do everything jgraphx can do

What I need is to make a diagram from a file produced by diagrams.net without me writing the parser (JGraphX can already parse diagrams.net's xml), show me a window where I can select and adjust elements by hand, transform the diagram programmatically in a language where I have both type-checking and good completion for (eg) the selected objects, export back to diagrams.net's format. Occasionally I want to extend the already interactive window myself. I also evaluated Typed Racket before picking Kawa and the JVM, but JGraphX was just a more appropriate tool for this specific workflow.

> There's also this (and others) for selenium

I remember finding that, and I counted it as a subset of Selenium's functionality rather than equivalent.

I agree on the sentiment on Racket though, as for the language itself Java was a second choice for me. What eventually convinced me to invest in it was that I could always call what I had already written from other languages on the JVM (mainly Scala and Kawa, which also happen to have decent repls) without writing any glue code.

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