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Increasingly convinced that specs are now the source and that code is an artifact akin to a lockfile.

What's funny is there were some half-hearted attempts to formulate specification languages over the years, but it remained a shitshow But that's not a problem for the models I do use RFC 8174 for MUST SHOULD MAY for familiarity, and in case I need to read the spec

UML's time has come!

there was a great essay by @hillelwayne.com a while back about how uml never had a standard symbolic representation; the standard only defined the pictures: buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...

It had different flavors that were more (or less) standardized

sure i mean you would necessarily have to have *some* symbolic representation if you were going to eg save a uml file, but if you wanted to get a uml file written from one editor into another you'd presumably have to (potentially lossy) convert it, no?

A lot of tools standardized on the Rational Rose format IIRC because they were the biggest

UML editors are still really common, esp for class diagrams and sequence diagrams For sequence diagrams, I have used sites that create the diagram from text sequences. It's *really* nice