Re:Devs need system design tools, not diagramming tools
by simon_brown on Thursday July 18, 2024 @03:04AM
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> Thank you, but by that argument, I could that for any diagramming / whiteboarding tool.
In theory, sure, but the majority of diagramming/whiteboarding tools are not easily manipulated via code/an API. Structurizr is a modelling tool, and the model can be authored by a number of methods ... manual authoring, reverse-engineering, or a hybrid of the two.
> The point is having a tool that reduces work for me and does these things automatically.
I do hope that we will see some tooling that can do these things automatically, but we're not there yet ... fully-automatic (as opposed to semi-automatic) comes with some serious trade-offs.
In theory, sure, but the majority of diagramming/whiteboarding tools are not easily manipulated via code/an API. Structurizr is a modelling tool, and the model can be authored by a number of methods ... manual authoring, reverse-engineering, or a hybrid of the two.
> The point is having a tool that reduces work for me and does these things automatically.
I do hope that we will see some tooling that can do these things automatically, but we're not there yet ... fully-automatic (as opposed to semi-automatic) comes with some serious trade-offs.