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The faster you unlearn OOP, the better for you and your software

Maybe it’s just my experience, but Object-Oriented Programming seems like a default, most common paradigm of software engineering. The one typically thought to students, featured in online material and for some reason, spontaneously applied even by people that didn’t intend it.

I know how succumbing it is, and how great of an idea it seems on the surface. It took me years to break its spell, and understand clearly how horrible it is and why. Because of this perspective, I have a strong belief that it’s important that people understand what is wrong with OOP, and what they should do instead.

Many people discussed problems with OOP before, and I will provide a list of my favorite articles and videos at the end of this post. Before that, I’d like to give it my own take.

Data is more important than code…

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brennan

brennan

Or Data-Oriented Programming?

dyowee

dyowee

There should be more books on Functional Programming :slight_smile:

jaeyson

jaeyson

would that be ideal for a newbie to learn fp first instead?

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