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Then it's a meaningless term. The fact that iTunes doesn't need to ship with drivers for my sound card is the same kind of "magic".
by bithive123 14y ago
Then it's a meaningless term. The fact that iTunes doesn't need to ship with drivers for my sound card is the same kind of "magic".
- adamors 14y agoIt is meaningless and I have a growing suspicion that it was coined by people who came from writing (PHP) websites from scratch. I remember being pleasantly surprised when I wrote my first website with a framework after a couple of years building sites from practically nothing. Compared to frameworkless PHP, Rails is magic but then so is Django or ASP.NET MVC.
- metaphorm 14y agothis isn't a good analogy. Rails is a software development framework whose users are programmers. iTunes is a media player whose users are non-technical. in other words Rails is a tool while iTunes is a finished product. you wouldn't compare a hammer with a cabinet, would you? if zero-framework development is a hammer, then development with a framework is a power-tool combination drill/hammer/driver. the power-tool does so much more then the basic tool that it feels "magical". its not a meaningless term then. its a description of the power of the tool.