Re:Ask HN: Is it bad to dislike using frameworks so much?
by Khao on Thursday July 14, 2011 @09:30AM
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As an example, would you drive a car if you didn't build it from scratch? What if you buy it and it just works?
This is the way I feel with frameworks. At first I always wanted to code everything myself but I couldn't achieve anything because it was too much work. Then I started making websites on top of a CMS (I used CMSMadeSimple but anything will do really). It could do everything I wanted and really quickly, and at some point if there was something that I couldn't do in the CMS or there was a bug, I could easily dig in the source code and fix it myself. Just like a car, you can pop the hood and play around with the stuff inside, but since it's already built and working you shouldn't have to play inside it too much.
This is the way I feel with frameworks. At first I always wanted to code everything myself but I couldn't achieve anything because it was too much work. Then I started making websites on top of a CMS (I used CMSMadeSimple but anything will do really). It could do everything I wanted and really quickly, and at some point if there was something that I couldn't do in the CMS or there was a bug, I could easily dig in the source code and fix it myself. Just like a car, you can pop the hood and play around with the stuff inside, but since it's already built and working you shouldn't have to play inside it too much.