Re:When Will the Last Line of Code Be Written?
by evincarofautumn on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:56PM
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Frameworks are anti-modular because they expect to be the world into which you plug your program. They’re prefab software architecture, which is great if it happens to be suited to your application, but painful if you later discover you have different needs.
To me, the defining feature of a framework (as opposed to an ordinary library) is that it’s explicitly not compositional, not replaceable, and not a “good citizen” for interoperation. Doesn’t sound great.
But there is a valid reason to incur these costs: prefab solutions let you ship something basically good now. The same thing happens in game development: do you just write a game, reinventing a lot of architecture now, or do you choose an engine, working around its limitations later? It’s more of a business decision than a technical one.
To me, the defining feature of a framework (as opposed to an ordinary library) is that it’s explicitly not compositional, not replaceable, and not a “good citizen” for interoperation. Doesn’t sound great.
But there is a valid reason to incur these costs: prefab solutions let you ship something basically good now. The same thing happens in game development: do you just write a game, reinventing a lot of architecture now, or do you choose an engine, working around its limitations later? It’s more of a business decision than a technical one.