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> I am convinced that this kind of component-based development is the future of the software industry. Building software using reusable components is good. How

by objclxt 14y ago

> I am convinced that this kind of component-based development is the future of the software industry. Building software using reusable components is good. However, there is a real danger that this approach discourages people from blindly throwing in components with no real idea of how they work. I have had the misfortune of having to rescue companies from poorly written iOS apps from iOS 'engineers' with no real idea of how to actually code who threw together a bunch of libraries like iCarousel. Sites like Binpress (not to single them out here: there are several others trying basically the same thing) don't encourage good development. They encourage developers without the skills to implement features to pay money for a quick fix. The cars analogy used here is an interesting one. Sure, some car manufacturers don't make their own engines - but they do spend a lot of time and effort to tune those engines to suit their needs. A company like Binpress doesn't encourage that: something like GitHub, on the other hand, does.

pytrin 14y ago
You still need capable developers to build a good product. The goal is to reduce the time they spend on solved problems.
- objclxt 14y ago
  ...I'm not denying that - I'm wondering why, for example, an iOS developer might obtain iCarousel from Binpress rather than GitHub.
  - pytrin 14y ago
    There's no reason not to use Github, we are not competitors - in fact, Github sponsored us in several events we ran. We are not a social coding / repo service like Github, but we perform a different function - we curate components and provide a platform to gain attention. In addition we provide the ability to charge for licensing, creating another incentive for sharing code and for maintaining it over the long run - basically run it like a business. Consider that Github has almost 3.5M repos. It's not easy finding what you need and also evaluating the quality. We try to reduce that friction for best in class components.

by objclxt 14y ago

pytrin 14y ago

You still need capable developers to build a good product. The goal is to reduce the time they spend on solved problems.

objclxt 14y ago
...I'm not denying that - I'm wondering why, for example, an iOS developer might obtain iCarousel from Binpress rather than GitHub.
- pytrin 14y ago
  There's no reason not to use Github, we are not competitors - in fact, Github sponsored us in several events we ran. We are not a social coding / repo service like Github, but we perform a different function - we curate components and provide a platform to gain attention. In addition we provide the ability to charge for licensing, creating another incentive for sharing code and for maintaining it over the long run - basically run it like a business. Consider that Github has almost 3.5M repos. It's not easy finding what you need and also evaluating the quality. We try to reduce that friction for best in class components.