Why “OOP” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
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by wipaveeknecht · Sep 1, 2026
One major point of disagreement: LLMs are not necessarily better at writing React because they have seen a lot of React. In fact, some benchmarks which ask the question: “which…
by znnajdla · Sep 1, 2026
Yes, OOP is hard to do right. It's not helped by examples and schools largely teaching from real world nouns. Most people in OOP languages are writing procedural code. For all t…
by bcrosby95 · Aug 31, 2026
Yes, I think we're in agreement overall. I think the hate typically comes from the mis-application of various tools; overly complex solutions for simple problems. There's nothin…
by danielbarla · Aug 31, 2026
video games are oop for historical reasons mostly. ue6 is built on verse which is a crazy functional language. carmack himself flirted with haskel and racket. but games are so p…
by slopinthebag · Aug 31, 2026
the functionality is often necessary and useful the question is if they're required to be implemented in the way that they are or if there is a simpler approach. also a lot of o…
by slopinthebag · Aug 31, 2026
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