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Doxygen vs Graphviz

A side-by-side look at Doxygen and Graphviz. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Doxygen

Doxygen

Development

Doxygen is a popular open-source documentation generator for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python and other programming languages. It allows developers to document their code with specially formatted comments that Doxygen then parses to produce documentation in various formats like HTML, LaTeX, and XML.

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Graphviz

Graphviz

Development

Graphviz is an open source graph visualization software used for representing structural information as diagrams of abstract graphs and networks. It provides useful features for creating a variety of graph types like directed graphs, undirected graphs, hierarchies, and more.

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