# Framework

Software framework is a collection of tools such as [environments](environment.md), [libraries](library.md), [compilers](compiler.md) and [editors](editor.md), that together allow fast and comfortable implementation of other software by plugging in relatively small pieces of code. While a simple [library](library.md) is something that's plugged as a helper into programmer's code, framework is a bigger system into which programmer plugs his code. Frameworks are generally [bloated](bloat.md) and harmful, [LRS](lrs.md) doesn't recommend relying on them.