> One thing that I would love to see from these diagram tools is to have the different components be aware of which other components can be connected too and how they will interact.
Visio does this. It's really a shame that Visio's SVG renderer is so bad, since its PDF and raster output is really good. But SVG is the standard now, and the PDFs it generates aren't easily converted to SVG.
> That can then be expanded into having it suggesting architecture patterns or even generating definition files for you.
I don't know about the former, but I think Visio can do the latter.
Visio does this. It's really a shame that Visio's SVG renderer is so bad, since its PDF and raster output is really good. But SVG is the standard now, and the PDFs it generates aren't easily converted to SVG.
> That can then be expanded into having it suggesting architecture patterns or even generating definition files for you.
I don't know about the former, but I think Visio can do the latter.