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Comment by renegade-otter

Anyone remember IBM's Rational Rose? You fed it a UML diagram of what you wanted to do, and it generated C++ stubs. That was two decades ago or more. I tried it once, and that was it. You still had to do the "last 10%" which is the most important 10% in software.

These tools are definitely more "magical", but these are essentially an iteration of what we've already had.

Code generation from UML was all the rage for a while too, until it wasn't. People realized its limitations at some point. Sort of like ORMs - if you are not policing SQL generation like a hawk, you are going to end up with an awful non-performant system.

Ultimately it is a productivity and prototyping tool - it will not do the hardest parts and integrations for you, at least not in the way you may want exactly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rational_Rose_XDE

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