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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by coldtea on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:10AM (#33188124)
>1. Every sufficiently complex framework-free application contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of a framework

Every sufficiently complex built-on-top-of-a-framework application contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of workarounds to the framework's limitations, the overhead of parts it doesn't need, a nightmarish dependency situation, and as a cherry on top, it ends up based on a previous version, of the framework (as the latter's creators rewrite with different APIs every couple of years for no good reason).

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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by dmitriid on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:57AM (#33188438)
Why not both? :)

Often you end up with an external framework, and an internal framework, and workarounds for both of them.... that are trying to evolve into their own framework

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