Don’t Write Frameworks For Dummies
February 5th, 2009
Eric Evans offers this piece of advice:
Don’t write frameworks for dummies. [Frameworks designed by organizations] that assume some developers are not smart enough … are likely to fail because they underestimate the difficulty of … development. … This attitude also poisons the relationship between [the developers and framework designer]. – Eric Evans, Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
Evans goes on to make the point that there’s a fine line between designing for dummies, and providing useful encapsulation / abstraction. I found this advice interesting because I had been wrestling with whether the ASP.NET AJAX Framework is for Dummies.
