The whole article felt it's coming from a traditional / industrial OO (everybody happy about UML usually doesn't see the world as I do).
broken slack links or not, the community is not as large as the author seems to convey.
broken slack links or not, the community is not as large as the author seems to convey.
I've never actually seen it used (or mentioned for that matter) in the few years I've been a software engineer...
most probably yeah, at least there are some informal uses whenever you make some diagram docs .. you'll end up aligning with uml 'vocab'.
I helped a european project on a uml graph versioning between various industrial uml applications, but I'd consider these niche.
IBM was heavy on UML since they bought Rational suite.. but I know IBM didn't use Rational for themselves (at least my department).. but surely Rational users did.
I think heavily regulated sectors are the most prevalent users of UML.. they like having a standard, having a lot of documentation etc.