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He is right. Give me a specialized collection of functions any time, aka, a library, but I will never again use a framework, which is a half-finished program, of which the users are supposed to figure out how to fill in the blanks. A framework imprisons your own code within confines and limitations of what will often turn out to be some kind of imbecilistan.

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"a framework, which is a half-finished program"

I think you might have another point here. If the framework wasn't a half-finished, but reasonably complete, program, then the criticism of the article wouldn't fly. It's perfectly OK for a finished program to be non-composable.

Emacs is a good example. It is a text editor first and framework second (although it's hard to believe, because people joke about it). It's not composable, merely extensible. Emacs has all faults that the article criticizes about frameworks; however, since it is usable on its own, it works out positively in the end.

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