Why “encapsulation” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
I noticed the security aspect to be one of the main selling points in corporations for going MCP (and one aspect that is underrepresented here). However, maybe I'm missing somet…
by woodpanel · Sep 22, 2026
> In particular, you could have unsafe code in crate A, whose data are then used by crate B. Is this backwards? If B consumes data from A then to me that does not imply that A d…
by aw1621107 · Sep 20, 2026
You mentioned elsewhere "But PL/SQL is a horrifying language. You have barely any facilities for modularity, encapsulation or composition" That's not true about PL/SQL…
by saxenaabhi · Sep 20, 2026
But PL/SQL is a horrifying language. You have barely any facilities for modularity, encapsulation or composition. Every procedure is just one name in a huge flat name space…
by jeremyjh · Sep 20, 2026
Narrowly, I think you're spot on. The effort required to understand the machinery around formal verification is a function of the surface area of the thing being formally verifi…
by rrook · Sep 18, 2026
> Anyway, getters and setters are an antipattern as well since one can just as well make all the fields public. I Java? Yes. Because of the language design, and not because of s…
by troupo · Sep 16, 2026
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