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I feel like as a collective set of industries across development and security we have been telling people for years not to reinvent the wheel because it's easier to stand on the shoulders of giants. Despite this, there seems to be an increasing push (from, for example, Go programmers) to go back to DIY. Is this not tearing away all the work we've done to stop people building their own auth, their own crypto, their own file read/write mechanisms and use ones that are battle-tested and safe?

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I should backtrack a tiny bit before I'm downvoted to oblivion.

I'm not opposed to libraries to handle a lot of stuff (like auth, crypto, and file I/O). I think it's typically irresponsible to reinvent these things for any reason other than "it's a fun personal project".

What I dislike about a lot of the frameworks is how locked-in I feel. There's (often) only one way to do things, and I don't always feel it's the best way, like my aforementioned parsing logic.

Sure, the framework's way might not always be the best way of doing things but I prefer to just accept it and move on. It saves spending time debating, deciding, experimenting with different ways of structuring code, when it probably doesn't really make that big of a difference in the end anyway. Most web applications are really not that different from each other.

On top of that it prevents really bad coders from rolling their own in a really bad way. Remember when everybody was coding their own MVC framework in PHP?

As for C# not parsing JSON correctly, that seems more like a problem with a language or library not anything to do with frameworks?

I overly simplified, but basically the issue came with having to figure out how the route was binding, then finding the class that was handling that binding, then finding the class the handled the parsing, etc.

It's not intrinsic to all frameworks I'm sure, but imposed structure like that does inherently lead to bureaucracy, which can make figuring stuff out difficult.

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