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diff --git a/faith/frameworks-and-libraries.rst b/faith/frameworks-and-libraries.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6090c57 --- /dev/null +++ b/faith/frameworks-and-libraries.rst @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +Frameworks and libraries +######################## + +:status: draft +:date: 1970-01-01T00:00:00 +:category: computer +:tags: firefoxOS, javascript, webapps, brick, framework, libraries, import, ES6 + + +While reading the discussion_ “Why I hate frameworks” I think +I’ve seen The Light™. I have finally recognized what is my +biggest problem with the current style of the Web development +(and consequently Firefox OS development). It is all about +frameworks. + +Where do I see the distinction between frameworks and libraries? +What I really want to do is to write program in whatever style +and structure I want. Only that would be too much work to write +everything myself (and in some cases, e.g., where numerical +stability is concerned, I would need to study one or more +universities to be able to write it), so I am glad that I can +call on some libraries to help via their exactly defined APIs +(and stable! I look at you, NodeJS & co.). However, still, I +decide about the structure of the program and its whole design. +Frameworks come from the other universe, the one of Microsoft +Visual Basic and similar attempts, where the framework does +everything and less-than-professional programmer just fills-in +details in some text boxes (if available). It comes from the +similar universe as whole ideal of CASE, RAD tools, UML, +complicated IDEs (who are mostly ancestors of the Visual Basic +idea anyway), etc. + +Crazy thing about the mobile development is that there are almost +no libraries and everybody tries to writes their own version of +framework. + +Or there are ... NPM. + +Even https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/ECMA +Script_6_support_in_Mozilla admits no support for libraries in +the current development of Firefox (and Mozilla is traditionally +ahead with the development of JavaScript) + +Perhaps there is a hope in Web Components, but I don't believe it much +... in the end what we are getting is https://github.com/mozbrick/brick +again. It seems that all we get from Web Components is yet another framework, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Components (ReactJS? Polymer?) + +This doesn't mean I don’t want examples. + +.. _discussion: + http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.219431 + +http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/?joel.3.290075.32 |