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by ChrisMarshallNY 1212 days ago
I enjoyed that read! Johan is a great writer.

I've written frameworks, libraries, SDKs, APIs, and drivers.

Most are not frameworks. Frameworks are a lot of work to write and maintain.

The most painful part of writing a framework, is the "rubber meets the road" part, where I suddenly realize that all that TLC I put into developing Guiding Principles, Mental Models, Basic Philosophies, etc. ad nauseam, were for shit, because no one is using my marvelous tool, the way I expect[0], and no one is oohing and ahhing over my masterful implementation. That ends up as a huge smorgasbord, serving a lot of Crow, Egg On Face, and Humble Pie.

[0] https://www.theonion.com/bantu-tribesman-uses-ibm-global-upl...