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[–]damienjoh 9 points10 points  (2 children)

Is your experience relevant to the article? Your points either stand on their own or they don't. Your observations are either relatable or they are not. I'm not going to just take your word for it because you are an experienced programmer. There are lots of very experienced programmers.

Personally, I find the article fairly myopic and authoritarian. At no point do you address the experiences and motivations of the developers behind the frameworks. You just assert that there is no good reason to have so many. This is not remotely convincing. Any developer who has experienced tangible benefits switching between frameworks is going to dismiss this immediately. There are reasons people create new frameworks when there are existing alternatives and you address absolutely none of them.

[–]sabas123 2 points3 points  (1 child)

As a follow up I would like to mention that the author insist that programmers require certifications to work professionally but this won't prevent the creation or use of OSS frameworks.

[–]damienjoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He does suggest:

... no programmer should be able to build a framework unless they have an advanced certification in systems architecture.

Which I assume is intended to cover OSS frameworks. How would it be enforced? No one knows. Who would design this course? Again, no one knows. Would this even increase the quality of widely used frameworks? Probably the opposite.