The Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017)

Re:The Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017) by baq on Monday December 11, 2023 @07:59AM (#38600251)

E.g. react does just fine with functional components; I'd say it does much better than with the old class-based ones.

Inheritance works well enough in exception classes, e.g. I can catch OSError and specifically handle FileNotFoundError differently on a language level, but it's nothing composition couldn't handle, either.

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Re:The Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017) by Coder1996 on Monday December 11, 2023 @11:53AM (#38602217)

I disagree re: React.

To me, class-based has one advantage over functional. A component is an object and therefore perhaps ought to be represented by a class.

That being said, functional maybe is a bit simpler.

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Re:The Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017) by baq on Monday December 11, 2023 @12:17PM (#38602424)

> A component is an object and therefore perhaps ought to be represented by a class.

That's what those who ditch inheritance altogether when designing languages challenge and it turns out not much of value is lost :) 'Component is an object' is something you'd hear from an OOP practitioner which isn't exactly convincing to people thinking functionally.

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Re:The Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017) by Coder1996 on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @11:10AM (#38614090)

I actually use a little bit of both OOP and functions.

What I don't understand, I suppose, is if a Component isn't an object that acts, then what is it?

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