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The article sticks to performance expenses upon the end user where it has the data. I am more curious how much frameworks cost at development time. Framework a
by austincheney 7y ago
The article sticks to performance expenses upon the end user where it has the data.
I am more curious how much frameworks cost at development time. Framework advocates always claim their pet framework makes development so much faster and cheaper but there is no data on that. That begs a few questions:
Do frameworks reduce hours of labor to build an application? If so how much?
Do frameworks lower the maintenance expense of a given application? If so how much? That number should include any sunset or revisions due to changes in the framework not associated to changes in the business requirements.
Do frameworks reduce the team size or business support staff to ship an application? If so how much?
Do frameworks lower developer hiring expenses and wages? If so how much?
- marcosdumay 7y agoThere are almost no good studies on any question of software engineering. We all go our entire days based on feelings and anecdotes, it's not just about Javascript frameworks. It would be good to change this, yet, software engineering is a very hard field to study.
- austincheney 7y agoToo hard to know is not a business justification. Imagine if you floated that argument as a lawyer, doctor, engineer, or even a truck driver. Your license would be revoked.
- marcosdumay 7y agoHum... Are you candidating yourself?
- austincheney 7y agoAfter having worked in other professions where ethics are such an early foundational principle it is rather interesting to see people so hopelessly lost and foreign to the concept.
- marcosdumay 7y agoSo, if I'm reading it right, no you are not candidating yourself, and you think not candidating oneself is an ethical failure? By the way, that argument that something being difficult is not a business justification is flawed on every level.