[mohamedkoubaa]

>it's kind of common knowledge

If only.

[hbn]

In my experience it's mostly pushed by university professors that haven't worked in the industry since the 90s.

[rf15]

And thus the people who most graduates learned under, and sometimes start founding their own companies with these principles right after.

[hbn]

I think most university graduates from the past ~15 years are more likely to get taken in by trendy new cargo-cult fads than repeat things taught to them by dinosaurs in their boring university classes.

[rf15]

It took me so long to beat the following into my team: Inheritance and instantiation by default is a no-no. Use instances when state would be useful to the process, and use Inheritance when you have a lot of overlap between two processes/concepts and want to simplify/unify the code base.

Application of inheritance is a reaction to the current state of the code, not a foundation you start with.

[mathisfun123]

yea it's amazing how many goofy ass "senior engineers" are still cargo-culting inheritance.