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Re:Frameworks Don't Make Much Sense by learc83 on Friday March 11, 2016 @02:12AM (#11265142)
>Frameworks are just a set of libraries that play nice.

Many times when people talk about the difference between frameworks and libraries, they are talking about which code is driving the program. I think this is the case here.

An overly simplified example of the difference is that, with a library, your code calls the library. With a framework, the framework calls your code.

Re:Frameworks Don't Make Much Sense by leohutson on Friday March 11, 2016 @06:21AM (#11265938)
Not quite sure I understand the calling distinction? I guess the article is more about web frameworks, which I have no knowledge of. I had desktop applications in mind, in particular GUI centric frameworks like Qt, which aside from moc is mostly just a very extensive set of libraries that build functionality on top of each other.
Re:Frameworks Don't Make Much Sense by Animats on Friday March 11, 2016 @02:15AM (#11265158)
Yes. Thus, in one program, you can use multiple libraries, but not multiple frameworks.
Re:Frameworks Don't Make Much Sense by AstralStorm on Friday March 11, 2016 @11:20AM (#11267483)
Sometimes you can and it is not even too hard to make them interoperate. This begs the question why would you want to though.