A client asks to add UML diagram support to my Helpinator, but I am not sure that it's worth my time.
Ask HN: Do you still use UML?
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#2never did. whats the point?
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#3never did. whats the point?
To impress your business friends.
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#4requirements in any real life scenario change every day, useless
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#5I'm teaching it. It feels increasingly out of date. Tool support has stagnated for years on Linux. Modern features like lambdas are not really supported.
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#6Sequence and state diagrams are fine, why not using them when you want to communicate certain things?
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#7I don't think i ever did. It feels like an enormous waste of time.
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#8Nope. Whiteboards and maybe a photo of it for posterity :-)
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#9never did. whats the point?
It was a buzzword at the end of 90's - first 00's, the purpose was to make developers and customers speak the same language.
Re: Ask HN: Do you still use UML?
#10never did. whats the point?
Communication. You get a shared language between people in hopes that when you draw a box it could mean the same thing to people in different orgs and cultures. Can't really design anything large without communication.