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Generally the difference between a library and a framework is that you can use bits and pieces of a library to add functionality to your project.

A framework expects most of your project to be shoehorned into it.

Whether something is one or the other depends on which of the two most users are doing. It's not a very interesting argument, though, because debating semantics is the worst use of the limited time you have on this planet.



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