[seventh-chord]

I feel like my ideal workflow would be a middleground between doing the design up front and just jumping into coding. Before you start coding I feel like you don't have much of an idea of what problems you will run into, resulting in diagrams based on the wrong assumptions. But with code it's easy to loose track of the high level structure of what you are writing. Writing code, then diagramming the high level structure, and then going back to fix the code seems like a good way to go.

[bakatubas]

Absolutely! That is similar to artists doing thumbnail sketches to figure out the composition; then once things are reasonably worked out, the chosen composition can be worked onto the final canvas; then the details follow.

That is a nice benefit of good development frameworks: how easy is it to explore new ideas? And frankly that’s why there’s an uptick in higher level languages.