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I get where you're coming from, it wasn't a particularly good metaphor I put forward. I would argue that there's some legitimacy in claiming that frameworks are just prepackaged collections of tools.

It's funny you mentioned hammers actually, the movie playing in my head when I was writing that post was of a neophyte hammering nails in all day, struggling to remove nails with some contraption, eventually deciding that there must be a better way to remove nails and inventing the hammer with nail extractor head.




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