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The difference is that the framework is built to be an open source framework - it has general abstractions. Your own patterns and practices are developed to ap

• acjohnson55 12y ago
  But a good framework has well chosen abstractions that took many person-hours to settle upon, a community of engineers working to perfect it, and probably uncountable hours of production battle-testedness.
  • pags 12y ago
    I'm not sure that time and bodies necessarily produce good abstractions.
  • jdlshore 12y ago
    > has well chosen abstractions That's a rather large leap of faith. It's more likely that it has a bunch of abstractions that were chosen early in the project when the maintainers were young, dumb, and eager; that have since shown their age and have been worked around repeatedly; but can't be removed due to being core to the framework and having a large body of applications depending on them.
    • acjohnson55 12y ago
      Not all frameworks. Good frameworks. The best incorporate the lessons learned from working with previous frameworks.