Re:The future of software developers
by lifeisstillgood on Sunday January 20, 2013 @09:55AM
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I am not sure I can articulate this well but ...
The huge explosion in (OSS) frameworks is only a problem because they are IMHO impeding code reuse rather than encouraging it. let me give an example
WSGI is a (python) means of passing http request info up and down a chain of compatible "apps" - basically they pass in same dictionary and call the same functions. Wsgi middleware does everything from authentication to upper asing replies
It's simple effective and hardly ever can you take one wsgi middleware and drop it into another framework because the authors have made assumptions about their framework (database connections etc) that are not supported in the other frameworks - or rather are supported differently.
In short - too many frameworks build their own exentention approaches - making every framework a silo instead of an Eco system
(Yes I am over exaggerating for effect but not a lot)
The huge explosion in (OSS) frameworks is only a problem because they are IMHO impeding code reuse rather than encouraging it. let me give an example
WSGI is a (python) means of passing http request info up and down a chain of compatible "apps" - basically they pass in same dictionary and call the same functions. Wsgi middleware does everything from authentication to upper asing replies
It's simple effective and hardly ever can you take one wsgi middleware and drop it into another framework because the authors have made assumptions about their framework (database connections etc) that are not supported in the other frameworks - or rather are supported differently.
In short - too many frameworks build their own exentention approaches - making every framework a silo instead of an Eco system
(Yes I am over exaggerating for effect but not a lot)