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   Tek say resist (tek@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 00:56:30 JST Tek say resist

   I’m reading something about why UML died. (If that doesn’t mean anything to you, count yourself blessed.)

   But it strikes me that protobufs is kind of living the dream here. If you put UML in Git and generated protobufs definitions from that, you’d have a diagramming to code path that people didn’t entirely hate.

   Huh, gotta ponder this first a while.

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     szakib (szakib@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 01:36:13 JST szakib

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     @tek At this point I have to admit I really like UML, especially when paired with code (skeleton!) generators.

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     edd (edd@freeradical.zone)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 09:18:34 JST edd

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     @tek I think the problem UML had was being too close to the code (and a fever dream of "architects" designing and developers filling in the blanks). The sequence diagrams and the like are very good; the class diagrams are sometimes helpful but not if they're too exhaustive (or you don't use interfaces enough).

     I like C4 models for having a nice tiered approach so you only get to UML code diagrams if you absolutely must.