Couldn't agree more. As I and my teammate started working on Candy (http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy) we knew that we wa

Couldn't agree more. As I and my teammate started working on Candy (http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy) we knew that we want to open-source the project. Therefore we built everything so modular and flexible that even we used the vanilla Candy and wrote just some custom plugins for our own use-case. I think it definitively leads to better code.