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He doesn't like frameworks? Yeah, it only took Apple a decade and millions of dollars to make the framework, but I'm sure I can knock up something better in a week or two. While we're at it, why bother buying an operating system when we can just write a better one ourselves? Can't be that hard.

As a Cocoa developer, I can say that this is the stupidest stuff I've heard in a long time. I can't believe I'm reading it on the front page of hacker news.

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I'm certain Apple has put a lot of hard work into the framework. As well as the operating system, etc. Your point is a good one, but let's please be civil here.

The article is interesting because I agree with a core concept of this rant, but the author's presentation fails to convince. The gem of the article is the last line "I can go about the business of making my own mistakes and learning from them; so that one day all of this might make sense." That is exactly how I feel about frameworks.

Sure, Apple put a lot of hard work into it, so that I don't have to. However, I'm going to have to put some hard work into something at some point. If I can't even understand the hard work in the underlying basics, how can I understand higher-level hard work?

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