No framework approach only work for a one person team or very small team and by design cannot scale. As soon as you try to bring somebody that will mainly "use

No framework approach only work for a one person team or very small team and by design cannot scale. As soon as you try to bring somebody that will mainly "use" those tools/libraries instead of actively developing them, the tools/libraries becomes a de-facto framework to them, just a proprietary one with no community. If/once you open-source it, it just becomes another framework competing with the other ones. Basically: http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/ In short, if you are not rewriting everything new from scratch for every project, you are using a framework - only your own.