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I think your comment about Rails being more accessible since other programmers would probably know it seems to be true of any framework but (anecdotally) I ques
by pm90 6y ago
I think your comment about Rails being more accessible since other programmers would probably know it seems to be true of any framework but (anecdotally) I question whether the hypothesis works in real life. Any fairly complex application built using frameworks seems similar at first but then there’s all kinds of custom hacks and non-idiomatic code that needs to be explained anyway. I guess at least most programmers will be familiar with the shape of the code but how import is that?
I suspect that frameworks are ideal for coding boot camps where one doesn’t need to understand the details of what frameworks do as much to be productive. And for boot amp grads perhaps a familiar framework makes the code more accessible? IDK, I’m speculating.
- freedomben 6y agoYou make some excellent points. With small apps I find I can drop into a rails codebase and be productive in minutes, but with any complex application there's enough hacks that it's almost never true. I think the framework/rails approach doesn't really do much for complex apps. Just my anecdata as well.