My personal views: Libraries are like strangers. The application and the library have a very strict interface. They stand arms length away. If something is mal

My personal views: Libraries are like strangers. The application and the library have a very strict interface. They stand arms length away. If something is malfunctioning in a library, you don't touch it, you either make the fix in application-space or use another library. There is a very distant separation between the two. Frameworks are like spouses.. you marry in to them. They hold you hand, set rules, tell you how things will be done. This can be a good thing. You can accomplish things very fast. But if something is wrong between either one of you, you will have to get involved neck deep trying to figure out what's wrong, and fixes need to be applies to both. Just like a marriage, it's easy to get in to, and things progress very fast and happily, but if stuff starts going sour getting out of one is no fun.