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by Annatar 2610 days ago
I won't, because I've been building applications for over 30 years; I know what's best, as I've had ample time to find out what works and what is sheer idiocy.

The various software I've written is small, fast, light, with minimal dependencies and it's easy to install because I deliver it as OS packages for the operating systems I support; my users tell me they are happy. The memory requirements are miniscule and the software lightning fast. Its size is measured in kilobytes, not megabytes or gigabytes, which means I must be doing something right. The manual pages often exceed the software in size and are brimming with examples. I pay extra attention to being backwards compatible when I implement changes and enhancements. Regressions are non-existent.

So I know I'm right and that using a bloated "framework" would have been one of the stupidest things I could have ever done.

As for re-inventing wheels, I use what comes with the OS and leverage what's already there; I've purposely not implemented any algorithm re-implementations of my own, although I easily could have. I'm neither dumb nor stupid to go re-inventing wheels, in fact that's one of the reasons why I hate webshits' frameworks. They don't call them webshit for no reason.