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Discussion on: Why You Shouldn't Use A Web Framework

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Cameron Pick

What a load of self righteous crap.

Yes yes, why use invented, tested, high quality already manufactured wheels perfect for your application when instead you can spend countless hours recreating the same God damn thing the same way purely for the sense of pride and accomplishment.

This is like saying, "don't learn to ride a bike, learn to change a tire. Sure when you're done you still won't know how to ride a bike, but at least you'll have gotten your hands dirty, or something."

Learning to use frameworks in general is a skill. Learning to use a specific framework is a sub set of that skill. Learning to build the underlying code or css of a framework is yet another skill that does not teach you how to use a framework, or how any particular framework works.

Point being, that if you want to build a website today, the best way to go about that is to never learn to build a framework, so long as your project does not require it. Instead learn to use tools appropriate to the task at hand if you do not already know them, and just do it.

There's no fucking point in tightening a bolt with your bare hands out of some kind of misguided sense of nerd machismo, which is all this is.