• nous@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    I think a lot of people conflate OOP and inheritance to mean the same thing. And inheritance is what should get the bad rap. It does not solve any problem I have seen any better than other language features (in particular interfaces/traits can solve a lot of the same problems) but inheritance causes far more problems overall.

    But building the code out of logical units with fenced responisbilities is in my opinion a good way to structure code.

    This is encapsulation, which is one of the better ideas from OOP languages. Though also not unique to them.

    And I have a hard time to wrap my mind around some design choices in the language that would have been very easily solved with a more OOP like structure.

    What design choices would those be? And how would they better fit into an OOP like structure? Note that rust is not anti OOP - it uses OOP techniques a lot throughout the code base. It just lack inheritance and replaces that with other IMO better features.

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      2 months ago

      This is encapsulation, which is one of the better ideas from OOP languages. Though also not unique to them.

      Interfaces, APIs, mincroservices, the unix philosophy…