Re:These time-sucks will add 3 months to your launch date.
by jrockway on Saturday May 31, 2008 @02:24PM
(#205341)
Look - the problem with frameworks is that by nature they’re general. But your application is specific.
So by building frameworks or libraries, you have to write a lot more code to cover a lot of use cases, which have nothing to do with your application!
Spoken like a true PHP weenie.
This is why most programming languages are useless; nobody writes any worthwhile libraries. I've found that writing a library rarely affects how quickly I get something done -- solving a general problem and a specific instance of a general problem usually involve the same amount of thinking (and a bit more code). Thinking is slow, and typing is fast... so I wouldn't worry about this being a time sink.
Plus, when you release the library, the other people that happen to use it will start fixing it for you. Now you have people working on your specific problem for free.
Anyway, once you get a culture of library building going, the net result is a huge time savings for everyone in the community.
So by building frameworks or libraries, you have to write a lot more code to cover a lot of use cases, which have nothing to do with your application!
Spoken like a true PHP weenie.
This is why most programming languages are useless; nobody writes any worthwhile libraries. I've found that writing a library rarely affects how quickly I get something done -- solving a general problem and a specific instance of a general problem usually involve the same amount of thinking (and a bit more code). Thinking is slow, and typing is fast... so I wouldn't worry about this being a time sink.
Plus, when you release the library, the other people that happen to use it will start fixing it for you. Now you have people working on your specific problem for free.
Anyway, once you get a culture of library building going, the net result is a huge time savings for everyone in the community.