Conecuh Software

Why do home grown frameworks (web and database mostly) seem like the right thing to do? I’ve had the opportunity to use a few in my day, and I think the reasons are:

• Not invented here
• We’ve got too much invested already

Both of these reasons (IMHO) stem from hubris, and end up costing many times more than just biting the bullet and accepting another framework as potentially better code than yours. NIH is among the worst, but it’s easy to spot, and easier to diffuse. “Too much invested” is often an disguise for

We spent a long time on this one idea, and abandoning it would make us look like we don’t know what we’re doing

Time moves on. Don’t live in the past. On the outside chance you’re right, investigation of other frameworks will encourage you to open source the one you’ve built. You’ll certainly get some ideas out of the endeavor.

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