I have to sympathize with Adam's sentiments. Surely, a major reason
for learning a framework is the knowledge (or at least the hope)
that it will support a thriving community and be developed by that
community over time. Frameworks are surely conservative things,
aiming at stability and maturity. If new frameworks are going to
appear every 12 months or so, the user-base of each is going to end
up so fragmented that it's hard to see how any will have sufficient
users to thrive.
Moreover, given the effort and time required to learn a framework,
it's going to become increasingly difficult to persuade developers
to make the effort to learn - especially those who've just spent six
months getting t grips with the last one, only to find fellow users
defecting to the latest and greatest. Who wants to learn a 'flavour
of the month system'? How will that ultimately further one's
development capabilities or one's job prospects?
If CFoR is developed, what's the guarantee that all one's hard work
learning it won't be threatened with redundancy by the next insanely
great paradigm waiting just around the corner? (Of course, there are
no gurantees, but one can still take stock of the trends.)
Could this endless pursuit of OO framework nirvana be a case of the
perfect being the enemy of the good?
Roger
Adrocknaphobia wrote:
If another CF framework comes out I'm going to puke.
-Adam
On 9/22/05, Raymond Camden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/22/05, John Farrar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes and No...
First we need to determine what our goals are. If we don't go (whatever this
means) far enough implementing the full feature set, it will be an ongoing
comparison. Let's do two things that will make this project manageable.
1. Let's kick in a list of features that we can vote on... I heard someone
has a survey application we could use for this. (Ray... do you know of any?)
Sure, you can download Soundings now and play with it. :)
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