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On the other side of the fence: Your own shitty framework owns your code, it locks you into this custom frankenstine thing that is a ball of mud that also smells bad. No one wants to look at it, it brings the best developers to their knees and the docs are impossible to relate to. One dude knows how it works and the tech debt is deep.

I'll take a Django project instead, thank you very much.

This is an age old discussion about appropriate abstraction.

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You seem like you didn’t really read the article so whatever you say here is not quite relevant. Using a framework is not excluded and they certainly have their place, but it really does depend on the project or the organization the system is developed and run in. There are places where a web framework is entrenched at a core of a business and Im sorry to say it but this is really misguided. Just using a framework doesn’t absolve you of the responsibility of architecting and thinking a solution through.

Spaghetti with mudballs is not shy to take over code that happens tobe written in a framework, it is just a function how much care is given for a codebase. In cases where a frameworks help it does provide some structure that can be used as an organizing unit but it should not be followed dogmatically.

> This is an age old discussion about appropriate abstraction.

It's not finished. I think the last change was that you don't need to worry anymore that something awful might be hiding under the hood. Sitting there, waiting to take your project where no man wants to go.

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