Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software
by paulryanrogers on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @10:52PM
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Are we all talking past each other? IME there is a time for using an off-the-shelf framework and a time to hand roll from scratch. (For varying definitions of scratch.)
Generally when a company's tech needs aren't very unique, and they seek to compete on time to market, then a shelf framework makes sense. Companies whose needs stretch the boundaries of shelf frameworks too much may be better served by building on a lower level platform like from a standard library--entirely or in part.
Yet building from scratch is costly. Depending on the stack / language chosen it may cost an "innovation token" or three. Small companies can't afford a lot of these tokens. And lots of eager engineers want to believe their problems are unique, dragons never before defeated. IME most problems aren't like that. They're boring, such as a codebase that's lost its fit as the market or company has grown, pivoted, or contracted.
Generally when a company's tech needs aren't very unique, and they seek to compete on time to market, then a shelf framework makes sense. Companies whose needs stretch the boundaries of shelf frameworks too much may be better served by building on a lower level platform like from a standard library--entirely or in part.
Yet building from scratch is costly. Depending on the stack / language chosen it may cost an "innovation token" or three. Small companies can't afford a lot of these tokens. And lots of eager engineers want to believe their problems are unique, dragons never before defeated. IME most problems aren't like that. They're boring, such as a codebase that's lost its fit as the market or company has grown, pivoted, or contracted.