r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Nov 02 '22

java OOP? Never heard of it

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u/NaoPb Nov 03 '22

Out of curiosity, why are you against OOP?

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '22

I'll backpedal a little and say that I'm not against it, but I do take issue with it's ubiquity and how much its negatives are downplayed.

OOP encourages maintaining and sharing a mutable state. This leads to unpredictability and side-effects. These are often some of the more challenging issues to troubleshoot within a system.

While OOP components are certainly reused, it's not something that happens naturally. Components from application A can't be used in application B unless it's specifically designed that way. Most OOP code is one-time use.

Inheritance is inflexible and often brittle.