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Re:The One-Person Framework in Practice by alankarmisra on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @04:28AM (#43829982)
I would argue that framework isn't the winning component, the people are. A lot of people can say similar things for framework <<X>> and they'd be right given their own experience but I think they give themseleves too little credit. I've written my own frameworks for smaller projects because I didn't want the needless learning curve / cruft of a generalized framework and I can tell you they saved me so much time / effort / cost over the long term and they were tuned to my development style. All built with python and some off-the-shelf libraries. I'm not saying there's no place for generalized frameworks. They do help streamline development efforts and set a standardized model for building out your app/service which would be great with a team of people all tuned in to a specific framework but I would argue that in a single developer environment it doesn't matter much what you use, so long as you have fun with it. Productivity analyses are at best personal opinions in a forum like this.

Edit: basic grammar.

Re:The One-Person Framework in Practice by loandbehold on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @01:56PM (#43835894)
Dating site PlentyOfFish was built and grown to one of the top dating sites in the world by a single developer until he sold it for $100 million to match.com parent company. It was written in C#/.NET. You can do it in any language.