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Anyone remember IBM's Rational Rose? You fed it a UML diagram of what you wanted to do, and it generated C++ stubs. That was two decades ago or more. I tried it once, and that was it. You still had to do the "last 10%" which is the most important 10% in software.

These tools are definitely more "magical", but these are essentially an iteration of what we've already had.

Code generation from UML was all the rage for a while too, until it wasn't. People realized its limitations at some point. Sort of like ORMs - if you are not policing SQL generation like a hawk, you are going to end up with an awful non-performant system.

Ultimately it is a productivity and prototyping tool - it will not do the hardest parts and integrations for you, at least not in the way you may want exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rational_Rose_XDE




Oh god, you're making my PTSD kick in. What this will all lead to? Clients going in making UI that appears to work fine and then asking developers to wire it in to the greater eco-system that will necessarily surround it, telling you "Look! It's almost done!" and then you're going to have PTSD too.


Wow, I did something like that for my senior project back in '94 using Inventor on an SGI workstation.




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