Using mermaid as proof that UML isn’t dead largely misunderstands what UML was — deeply intertwined with OOP and waterfall. Using class to define a class also doesn’t mean you’re writing C++.
I wouldn’t say UML is dead, but maybe not a sexy topic in itself. Mermaid is proof that graphs/diagrams, UML or not, are still pretty handy to have to visualize large-scale projects. If I lived in an ideal world, I would love to use Luna/Enso for practical projects, but I am a bit biased as I do enjoy PureData still.
I’m still working backwards converting Racket code into diagrams for fun over here.
op likes mermaid, I found it buggy and finicky. I personally started using plantuml and I find it miles above quality wise. And has about the same integrations (eg emacs, vscode) or are one shell command away.
Same here. Plantuml seems to be the IMHO the best abstraction / DSL to create a multitude of diagrams. Despite my dislike for gantt charts, I used Plantuml recently to generate high-level timelines and it was fun. Recent updates made it faster so that editors that integrate it now only freeze for a fraction of a second as opposed to 2s for earlier versions.
I’d argue those aren’t uml, just the same diagram types that uml also happened to use. State machine and sequence diagrams are a lot older than uml.
Yeah, all the diagram types listed here far predate UML, and would clearly be in use without UML ever existing.
True, but the standardisation from UML has been useful; admittedly the whole UML spec is a far too heavy though
I use UML’s cardinality notation regularly for database diagrams.
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Using mermaid as proof that UML isn’t dead largely misunderstands what UML was — deeply intertwined with OOP and waterfall. Using
classto define a class also doesn’t mean you’re writing C++.I wouldn’t say UML is dead, but maybe not a sexy topic in itself. Mermaid is proof that graphs/diagrams, UML or not, are still pretty handy to have to visualize large-scale projects. If I lived in an ideal world, I would love to use Luna/Enso for practical projects, but I am a bit biased as I do enjoy PureData still.
I’m still working backwards converting Racket code into diagrams for fun over here.
I’ve not heard of either of those tools, but they both look very interesting, thanks!
op likes mermaid, I found it buggy and finicky. I personally started using plantuml and I find it miles above quality wise. And has about the same integrations (eg emacs, vscode) or are one shell command away.
Same here. Plantuml seems to be the IMHO the best abstraction / DSL to create a multitude of diagrams. Despite my dislike for gantt charts, I used Plantuml recently to generate high-level timelines and it was fun. Recent updates made it faster so that editors that integrate it now only freeze for a fraction of a second as opposed to 2s for earlier versions.
Reminds me, whatever happened to https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/resources/statecharts.pdf ?