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[โ€“] Valmond 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People (sometimes) use it far too much and in wrong ways.

Like inherit when you could just instantiate, or use a template.

Or when "everything should be a class" was also a bummer (inhetit "run()"), like I'd instantiate "main" twice (cool if it had worked I guess).

Or old code written by "wizards" where they cast cast cast instances onto other classes to use specific behaviour in crazily dangerous manners. And you're the one to "fix it" because it doesn't work well...

Otherwise OOP is good.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Just like any software design principle, it's understood at a surface level by tons of bad developers who then try and solve every problem with that one principle. Then slightly better developers come along and say "ugh this is gross, OOP is bad!" And then they avoid the principle at all costs and tell everyone how bad it is at every opportunity.