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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.364s | source
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FrustratedMonky ◴[05 Feb 25 12:49 UTC] No.42947780[source]▶
"Objects are extremely good at what they're good at. Blind devotion to functional is dumb. "

Guess this hits home. But Blind anything is bad. I spent a decade blinded by objects being everything (original gang of four book). Then a decade where everything is functions.

Why not pass a list of objects to that function.

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1. ikety ◴[05 Feb 25 15:33 UTC] No.42949924[source]▶
Objects are also used in functional programming. This feels like a reaction to people being functional evangelists.

There's a reason most modern languages are completely blurring the lines and allowing you to think with multiple paradigms.

I'd be more upset with institutions lacking in functional programming coursework. OOP is dominant, I can't see why people get so irritated by a few annoying functional evangelists. And while annoying, I don't think the motivation there is always "Blind devotion to functional"