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I remember going to a mobile conference in the early 2000s and every single vendor there was saying that developing mobile apps using UML was the future. No code, just map out everything in a diagram.

Granted a smart phone was unheard of at this point so most mobile apps wouldn't even be called apps by today's standards.

A decade and a half later and mobile developer is a highly skilled _coding_ position.




in the early 2000s and every single vendor there was saying that developing mobile apps using UML was the future. No code, just map out everything in a diagram.

UML in later versions got so bad that even the original creators disowned it. Turned out that putting everything into a diagram was just as hard (and less convenient) than writing it as code.


And UML is... well, maybe not dead, but nobody thinks it's going to replace coding.




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