Barebone programming languages are costly without frameworks

Dear tech recruiters,

What are we talking about today?

Today, I want to dive into why bare bone programming languages are costly.

A programming language, JavaScript for example, when used in isolation has a high cost for any business!

Before firing all your JavaScript developers, read this!

You're probably reading this newsletter on a desktop application (Google Chrome or Safari). In that case, JavaScript is used by your desktop application to display this essay.

If you're reading this on your phone (Gmail, Outlook...), one of these programming languages has been been used to create those applications: Kotlin (fun), Java (huh fun maybe), JavaScript (super duper fun), Swift (amazing) or Objective-C (Not fun at all). 

However, ANY of these languages, when used in isolation, meaning, without any framework, is costly.

The usage of a framework in the real world

Picture going to visit your doctor after experiencing high temperatures (fever), sore throat, cough, tiredness, aches and pains. After explaining these symptoms to your docker (doctor), they give you a quick diagnostic: your symptoms are those of an infectious disease caused by one of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses of type 2.

The doctor explained your symptoms using some plain English words. Let's agree that If you pay your doctor by the hour, the above explanation is designed to make the session last as long as possible. Moreover, It makes it difficult for you to understand what you're suffering from. Here is how the use of a framework (the doctor framework) can help make the above explanation short and straight to the point:

Image going to visit your doctor after experiencing high fever, sore throat, cough, tiredness, aches and pains. After explaining these symptoms to your docker (doctor), they give you a quick diagnostic: you got the Covid-19. Here is what you should do to heal.

Hopefully, you see the usage of the word Covid-19 encapsulate so many parts and remove the need to repeat over and over again the same long sentence. 

Back to programming languages. For example, building a mobile application in Swift for iOS, you don't want to reinvent the way people connect to an application, the way you scroll through your list of contacts, the way to send emails, etcetera. Frameworks are designed to help accelerate the development of these processes.

Takeaways for tech recruiters

Some developers often say: "They prefer using vanilla JavaScript". They mean, they use JavaScript without a framework like VueJS, Angular or NodeJS. This is often a costly choice for any company. Frameworks are designed to accelerate the building process. Use them!

Some companies might be looking for such profiles but that's not the majority. Without a framework, the company is doomed to repeat every process again and again. Or worst, they ended up creating their own internal framework which in the short term sounds like a good idea. It's often a bad idea. I'll explain that in another newsletter.

Good questions to ask your candidates or your clients:

• Which Frameworks do you use? 
• What do you think is the impact of using that framework versus the bare bone language?
• I can't find a candidate with experience in framework X who has a good understanding of the programming language itself and they are willing to learn the framework you use. Would you consider interviewing them?

That's it for today! I hope this gives you a good understanding of the difference between programming languages and frameworks.

That was Barebone (programming) languages are costly without frameworks.

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