Re:Why is OOP still so widely spread?
by Const-me on Thursday September 03, 2020 @05:36PM
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> But then I start to wonder.. is this actually elite minds speaking ... Or, is it just some overly opinionated junior person
There's another dimension of the issue: types of the project the person has experience with.
Something that works in a low-level Windows desktop doesn't necessarily work in high-level Linux web. Something that works for NASA or SpaceX doesn't necessarily work for a mobile game startup. Something that works for FAANG is not necessarily the best way for a web site that's running on a single server. Something awesome for a social network is not guaranteed to do any good for a bank, or a research lab.
That "something" can be pretty much anything: languages, libraries, IDEs, frameworks, project management practices, hiring practices. The only thing these projects have in common is "people need to write code that does something". Almost everything else is different. And yet we have many discussions where people working in different industries, on projects with different requirements, budget, users, revenue sources are arguing which language is better.
There's another dimension of the issue: types of the project the person has experience with.
Something that works in a low-level Windows desktop doesn't necessarily work in high-level Linux web. Something that works for NASA or SpaceX doesn't necessarily work for a mobile game startup. Something that works for FAANG is not necessarily the best way for a web site that's running on a single server. Something awesome for a social network is not guaranteed to do any good for a bank, or a research lab.
That "something" can be pretty much anything: languages, libraries, IDEs, frameworks, project management practices, hiring practices. The only thing these projects have in common is "people need to write code that does something". Almost everything else is different. And yet we have many discussions where people working in different industries, on projects with different requirements, budget, users, revenue sources are arguing which language is better.