I have actually seen it in an XML file in the wild. Never quite understood why they did it. Anything they encoded into there, they could have just added a node for.
But it was an XML format that was widely used in a big company, so presumably somewhere someone wrote a shitty XML parser that can’t deal with additional nodes. Or they were just scared of touching the existing structure, I don’t know.

The thing is, it was never really intended as a storage format for plain data. It’s a markup language, so you’re supposed to use it for describing complex documents, like it’s used in HTML for example. It was just readily available as a library in many programming languages when not much else was, so it got abused for data storage a lot.

Man, I’m getting tired of everyone and their cat saying shit like “AI will…”.

With how loosely defined “AI” is, it probably will at some point. But that statement is also completely worthless.

Sounds like it, yeah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueType
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType

Oh yeah, low-code platforms in general are pretty much always a thing, in every industry for various tasks.

I’ve also never seen any of them that were not horribly abused with ridiculous workarounds or custom code snippets, which effectively made them as complex as a real program.

One really great thing it can do is auto commenting of the code

But then it only comments the ‘what’, it cannot possibly know the ‘why’. I know, some devs disagree on that, but personally, I would rather not have what-comments in my code.

For OOP languages, you can definitely get IDE plugins, which create UML from code.

Personally, I’ve never found them useful, though, partially because our code was never OOP enough, e.g. we were using the actor pattern, or had important modules with functions, or had lots of small classes for handing data around etc…

But also because it just makes for bad architecture diagrams.
It has no sense of what’s important and what should be abstracted away. Or how to structure the diagram to make it readable, e.g. REST API at the top, database at the bottom.

What I also really don’t like about generated architecture diagrams in general (even when the contents are specified via e.g. PlantUML), is that things jump around every time you make a structural change. This means people looking at the diagram have no chance of learning what it looks like, so they can spot changes or know where to look for what they’re interested in.

Particularly unexpected, because 3! = 6.

I feel like there’s just too much competition. They would’ve needed some hefty marketing budget to get across why people should play this instead of Overwatch et al.

Yeah, I find the similarity most striking with LibreOffice Draw vs. LibreOffice Writer. It very much feels like Draw is just a superset of the features of Writer.

There is certainly some differences, though, e.g. text doesn’t automatically overflow onto new pages, text boxes don’t automatically increase in size, things like that.
Everything is a lot more static, which is great for layout, and less great, if you just need to type out some text.

https://www.ponylang.io/

Nah, I dislike all the other people using Excel. I once saw it used for providing a deployment configuration, which then got parsed from that Excel and pushed into a repo. Like, goddamn, just let me edit the repo directly.

There’s so-called desktop publishing software.

In the open-source world, I typically see Scribus recommended.

Yes? Again, I’m not saying there’s not going to be disagreements or politics, I’m just saying that it’s going to be less loaded than Linux kernel politics.

Yeah, I did read that, admittedly after making my comment, but thanks for pointing it out anyways. 🙂

You don’t need to always be of the same opinion for it to be much less loaded than Linux politics…

There’s Redox OS already headed in that general direction.

There’s also this tutorial: https://os.phil-opp.com

KISS launcher is also good: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/fr.neamar.kiss/

It certainly looks a lot like Helvetica. Probably could be any of these Helvetica clones:

I will also say that it feels a lot like Inter to me, which it’s not as the i-dots aren’t round, but maybe you’ll enjoy that one anyways…

I think what really bothers me about the aesthetics is that the shapes are broken up by the coloration. For example, the pin icon for Google Maps looks almost like a hook, because the yellow has little contrast on this white background.