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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by Ma8ee on Thursday October 13, 2022 @03:30AM (#33188255)
An important part of being a framework is that it is made for reusability, similar to a library. Just because your code has some thought out structure/architecture doesn't mean that it has an inherent framework.
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Re:Using a Framework will harm the maintenance of your software by Supermancho on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @08:03PM (#33255741)
> An important part of being a framework is that it is made for reusability

I might have agreed with this at one time. A dedicated "framework" has documentation and additional software to shortcut assumptions, but a coherent design isn't different enough from the rules that guide any given framework to be a distinction. The biggest differences are how mature the frameworks are in breadth of documentation, guidance in how to achieve constrained goals (there is no "everything" framework), and supporting software to shortcut boilerplate.

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