Microsoft has decided to drop the UML (Unified Modeling Language) designer tools from Visual Studio 15, reports Paul Krill at IT World. MS sales and support teams confirmed that few customers were actually using the feature.
"Removing a feature is always a hard decision, but we want to ensure that our resources are invested in features that deliver the most customer value," said Microsoft's Jean-Marc Prieur, senior program manager for Visual Studio.
I've almost never had occasion to use UML professionally other than a few hand drawn designs on scrap paper that were thrown away. I did have a coworker who had a tool that generated UML from code that was sometimes helpful when he explained his work in review sessions. In school UML appeared to be a nightmare that was used for modelling everything but software, yet academics talked about UML one day becoming executable and replacing code.
Do you use UML? Are you going to miss this feature in Visual Studio?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @01:54PM
The parent comnent is not flamebait.
It is the truth that many people reading this site hate Microsoft but have no experience with their SERVER operating systems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @02:12PM
People have good F---ing reasons to hate Microsoft. And I DO have experience with Microsoft OSes since my company uses them. However my product would run on Linux just fine.