I used to feel this way. However I tended to find myself, on most projects, spending a surprising amount of time tweaking incompatibilities between the various lightweight libraries I was using. And it was a bit of an effort to unify things like logging and error reporting.
Which is when I realised the utility of a bulky framework; for the most part it is a suite of libraries that work together/are compatible but which someone else maintains for me :)
This was a big step for me.
(although I still use the lightweight approach for smaller projects)
Which is when I realised the utility of a bulky framework; for the most part it is a suite of libraries that work together/are compatible but which someone else maintains for me :)
This was a big step for me.
(although I still use the lightweight approach for smaller projects)