Why I Hate Frameworks
So, instead, we started selling schematic diagrams for hammer factories, enabling our clients to build their own hammer factories, custom engineered to manufacture only the kinds of hammers that they would actually need.
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This article from 2005 reminds me why world should be grateful for Ruby on Rails and its philosophy: it brought the sanity back to software development, dominated back then by monstrous Java frameworks.