[OT] Looking for a usable UML diagram editor

[David Gileadi]

On 10/19/20 10:01 AM, solidstate1991 wrote:
> After StarUML decided to start to randomly crap out on me, while 
> potentially ruining my mostly D projects in it by locking them into the 
> proprietary *.MDJ format (although it would be easy to reverse engineer 
> it, since it's JSON-based). It's also quite abandoned as of now, with no 
> hopes of ever improving the constant crashes and other issues.
> 
> I mainly need one for class diagrams, so that must be a strong point of 
> the software, also it would be great if it outputted to the 
> non-proprietary *.UML format, so I can include it with the source code.

It's not an editor but I use PlantUML [1]. It's a reasonably 
simple/readable text format so it would easily ship with your source 
code. Its main downside is that you don't have much control over the 
layout of the generated diagrams.

[1]: https://plantuml.com