Re:Frameworks Don't Make Much Sense
by mbrock on Friday March 11, 2016 @05:17AM
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People disagree strongly with this article because it's written in a strongly opinionated way yet is also quite abstract in that it fails to specify the context and meaning of certain key things in the argument.
But whatever. This is how discussions work nowadays: someone makes a strong vague claim, and then other people react strongly against it, and we all have a fun time arguing.
"NIH syndrome" is a thought-terminating cliché.
Frameworks are sometimes useful in the same way that a "methodology" like Scrum is useful, or in the way a "theory" in social science is useful: they are patterns that people can learn and adapt to and they let people work continuously without always stopping to make fundamental decisions.
I think the anti-framework train of thought is very useful as an antidote to the framework mania that some programmers go through, or let's say the "anti-NIH syndrome."
You could kind of compare it to Paul Graham's thing about tiny teams of expert hackers using the power of Lisp to create their own kind of bottom up dialect perfectly tailored to the nature of their project. It's hard to do that if you're always jumping to put in complex external scaffolding that's designed for big teams.
But whatever. This is how discussions work nowadays: someone makes a strong vague claim, and then other people react strongly against it, and we all have a fun time arguing.
"NIH syndrome" is a thought-terminating cliché.
Frameworks are sometimes useful in the same way that a "methodology" like Scrum is useful, or in the way a "theory" in social science is useful: they are patterns that people can learn and adapt to and they let people work continuously without always stopping to make fundamental decisions.
I think the anti-framework train of thought is very useful as an antidote to the framework mania that some programmers go through, or let's say the "anti-NIH syndrome."
You could kind of compare it to Paul Graham's thing about tiny teams of expert hackers using the power of Lisp to create their own kind of bottom up dialect perfectly tailored to the nature of their project. It's hard to do that if you're always jumping to put in complex external scaffolding that's designed for big teams.