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TIFU by not using objects in my object-oriented programming coursework (lemmy.ca)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's a fair assessment. It's kind of like the rule for premature optimization: don't.

With experience you might get some intuition about when it's good to lean into inheritance. We were definitely lacking experience at that point though.

OOP is a pretty powerful paradigm, which means it's also easy to provide enough rope to hang yourself with. See also just about any other meme here about OOP