Why bother with development frameworks?
Having worked with a couple of web application frameworks over the last couple of years, I got thinking.
Why is it that almost all the largest, busiest and most successful websites weren't developed with a framework? Why didn't the developers of Wikipedia, Facebook or Wordpress choose to use Symfony, Codeigniter, Mojavi or any of the other frameworks which claim to be the best?
Is it something to do with the reality that they're often too complicated to learn in the first place? And even when they're put to actual use on real websites, even the best ones are so bloated, that they simply crawl along at a snail's pace?
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