Wanted: Your OTP architecture diagram

I still think it’d be cool to have a task that generated these ascii/dot/pdf diagrams for you, especially in the spirit of always-up-to-date project documentation. Observer is super for understanding the runtime behaviour of running systems, but screenshots of it is a poor way to document, share, and understand the compile-time design of an application’s architecture.

I come back to this concept now and again but still haven’t gotten around to trying to implement it, partially because observer seems to suffice for most people so I’m not sure it’s worth the effort. I really want it so I’m sure I’ll get around to it one of these days.

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