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by baq 748 days ago
> I’ve never seen a codebase ever really use OOP in an enterprise setting.

That’s a very strong hint OOP does not solve any problems better than alternatives.

I think this is something programmers understood for a very long time but either didn’t care or didn’t have the tools to do better. Then go and typescript came along and showed the world that indeed structural typing is in practice better at almost everything, except perhaps GUI libraries. Maybe.
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ivan_gammel 748 days ago
„Better than“ was never going to work for any paradigm. What actually works is „better together“, with a healthy mix of OOP, FP and SP.
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Pet_Ant 748 days ago
> That’s a very strong hint OOP does not solve any problems better than alternatives.

It also requires more conceptually out of developers. I cannot count the amount of times I was on a team with developers that when implementing an interface never created a method that wasn’t one of the publicly required ones (ie no helper methods).

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