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holger359
holger359

Reputation: 131

What does "implementation-agnostic" mean?

I'm just wondering what "implementation-agnostic" means? I didn't find any explanation. I mean it in this context: "an implementation-agnostic engineering approach".

Upvotes: 12

Views: 9091

Answers (4)

Matt
Matt

Reputation: 26997

The opposite of "implementation-agnostic" is "implementation-specific". Some examples should make the difference clear:

Implementation-agnostic

Synonym: Implementation-independent

Examples:

The examples above can be implemented with every programming language
(Assembler, BASIC, C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, ...)

Implementation-specific

Synonym: Implementation-dependent

Examples:

The examples above run only on the hardware they are written for.

But also software that depends on or is using other software, dependency injection, interfaces, operating systems, services or frameworks is implementation-specific (for example, although .NETs intermediate language MSIL can run on different hardware or operating systems, it still depends on the .NET framework and hence is implementation-specific).

Upvotes: 10

Luceo Astrum
Luceo Astrum

Reputation: 66

To say that a solution is implementation-agnostic is to say that it's not reliant on specific technologies, programming languages etc. Pseudocode would be a good example of an implementation-agnostic tool, as would UML for modelling.

Upvotes: 2

Ja͢ck
Ja͢ck

Reputation: 173602

This is often used to discuss a problem without committing to a particular implementation. Doing so may lead to choosing an implementation / tool that's best suited for the problem rather than having to worry about the limitations of an already chosen solution during the problem definition.

Upvotes: 3

qwertyboy
qwertyboy

Reputation: 1646

Agnostic, in this context, means "doesn't care about". So implementation agnostic is something that does not care about the implementation.

Upvotes: 2

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