On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 at 21:57:28 UTC, solidstate1991 wrote:
Thanks to my education, I first wanted to approach every problems in programming from an object-oriented viewpoint, since that was the only one we were taught.
Sounds like you were more or less lucky compared to average: For a long while, OOP wasn't just the only thing taught, it was frequent taught specifically to be "the one and only right way."
It's not so much OOP itself that's hated: It's the late 90's early 2000's obsession that OOP is the one right way to do EVERYTHING that gets a lot of (much deserved) hate.
I used to do a lot of OO myself (in fact, Tango was very heavily rooted in OOP design), but the more I use D2 and other things, the more convinced I am that there are just simply better mechanisms (provided the language in question supports them well enough) to get the benefits offered by traditional inheritance-based OOP, without so much of the now-well-known downsides. I'm 90% convinced that an equivalent of traditional Java-style OOP could be constructed out of these meachanisms without too much trouble, and is effectively a subset of them. If I were a grad student, I would totally do a thesis around that.
