On: PlantUML in a nutshell

[cocoa19]

Might or might not be true. But I'd say producing good diagrams is implicitly mandatory if you want to advance your career.

I didn't use them much as an individual contributor, but as a lead, I rely on them all the time to communicate ideas.

PlantUML makes it so easy to do so.

[beardedwizard → cocoa19]

I spend my day trying to convince many developers they should engage in formalized design at all. Big fan of diagrams here.

[forinti → beardedwizard]

Same here, with little success. Often people want to find some tool to generate diagrams from the code, which totally misses the point.

Still, I use them in my projects and they help me very much.