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Frameworks make perfect sense if you don't know what you are doing. I've seen way too many inexperienced developers that try their hand with coding something f
by cenal 11y ago
Frameworks make perfect sense if you don't know what you are doing. I've seen way too many inexperienced developers that try their hand with coding something from scratch only to have the product development fail spectacularly and never launch.
If you are as accomplished as the author then a framework is probably going to only slow him down. In full disclosure I've worked with the author. Peteris Krumins is an extremely talented developer who has a very cool startup called Browserling (http://www.browserling.com http://www.browserling.com) for those of you who need browser based testing.
- greggman 11y agoframeworks make sense even if you do know what you're doing. Google, Facebook, all the top companies use frameworks. Why would I want to waste time reinventing the wheel. I just want to drive the car to get to my destination. I don't want to build the engine. A better analog might be movie making and some guy claiming "buying cameras makes no sense. You should develope your own cameras and your own film. it's more creative". No, it's not. It's wasted time doing busywork someone else has already done. Similar to game engines. You could write your own and spend 1 to 10 man years reproducing what's already been done. Or you could spend that 1 to 10 man years on design, prototypes, and iteration in the actual meat of your project.
- JackFr 11y agoIf you've ever made a pinhole camera they're actually relatively easy to make and tons of fun. No good for movies though...
- esailija 11y agoThey use frameworks that they themselves invented specifically for their use cases, they didn't take someone else's framework because they know it doesn't make sense just as the author claims.