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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by jamesfinlayson on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:01PM (#33186285)
Agreed - I think most programming language communities have settled on one major framework (though there are plenty of other smaller ones) and they've survived.

Spring: June 2003

Rails: August 2004

Django: July 2005

Symfony: October 2005

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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by kgeist on Thursday October 13, 2022 @02:05AM (#33187792)
Symfony is actually more like several different frameworks under the same name. Some of our projects are stuck with Symfony 1 and upgrading them to the latest version is aking to switching the frameworks because they have almost nothing in common.
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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by woranl on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:47PM (#33186557)
Many don’t survive. You mentioned Symfony, Zend used to be equally popular. Not many people use it now.
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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by jamesfinlayson on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @11:54PM (#33187035)
Oh I agree - 15 years ago picking a web framework would have been much more difficult - for web frameworks now though I think that using the most popular choice should be quite safe.
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