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OOP Criticisms

This cluster centers on debates about Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), with many comments criticizing it as overrated, a mistake, or poorly implemented, while others defend its uses or discuss alternatives.

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OO e.g AWS OOP ORM harmful.cat DDD ABI v.org i.e oop object oo programming object oriented oriented code running modular classes interfaces

Sample Comments

Poliorcetes • Jan 26, 2024 • View on HN

whats wrong with object oriented programming?

cbkeller • Jun 5, 2020 • View on HN

OOP has become an antipattern (ok, partially kidding but...)

fermienrico • Nov 25, 2018 • View on HN

New to OOP programming. Could you explain what sort of arguments are presented against using OOP? I am genuinely curious.

Kapura • Jul 31, 2020 • View on HN

In summary, "Object Oriented Programming is good when you don't orient your program around objects."

mattferderer • Jun 30, 2017 • View on HN

Are you referring to this article? http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/OO_programming/why_oo_suck...

cheponis • Jun 7, 2007 • View on HN

OOP is heavily overrated. Anything that can be done with OOP can be done, and often done better, without OOP.

nenadg • Sep 2, 2020 • View on HN

there is no problem with oop, just nobody ever 'did it properly™', and even if it did, it didn't/sarcasm

platz • Jul 31, 2020 • View on HN

Object-Oriented Programming is Bad (2016)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19407599 (2019)

amno • Aug 6, 2023 • View on HN

OOP itself is not a misstake, but the way it is (usually) implemented probably is.

nsajko • Feb 11, 2022 • View on HN

Isn't OOP mostly just a buzzword?