Well these are two very different examples. One, ROOT, is a powerful data analysis framework that as powerful as it is failed to be general and easy to use enou

Well these are two very different examples. One, ROOT, is a powerful data analysis framework that as powerful as it is failed to be general and easy to use enough to ever get out the HEP world. The other one, gstreamer, is a beautifully designed platform with an architecture so nice it can be easily abstracted and reused in completely different scenarios, even ones that probably never occurred to the authors.