I just started using this and am still in the trial period but I will definitely be paying for it when my 100 free searches are gone. So many top results are exactly what I’m looking for. I can’t believe my expectations have been conditioned to the point where this surprises me…
It’s the word lawyer. Please forgive me for having a tarnished view of the practice after a lifetime of reading about all the silly, frivolous litigation that constantly occurs in the US.
I get what you’re saying though. I know there are good lawyers and a need for them.
Also not a fan of that “pay a lawyer” part.
Carbon? Just what we were all hoping for, yet another programming language from Google. They can keep it.
Feeling this. When I first started I wondered why some of the senior devs worked an hour+ later on most days. Now I know - sometimes it’s the only way to get anything done.
Never fails to get family members crying.
Played so many 3 hour games where everyone just held their stoppers for when someone was going to hit level 10. By the end you’re just silently pleading that someone dings so it can be over.
Hmm, do I want to open some external site/program to see my documentation or have it already in the code in front of me?
We use doxygen at my company and I think I’ve only ever opened it twice in 9 years.
Wait WHAT? I was just asking on discord the other day if there existed a search engine that allowed you to blacklist websites as a user setting. I need to curate out all AI written garbage from my results.
And then asking, “why would you even try doing it like this?”
There are some infamous cases of OOP abuse in the 7 digit LOC embedded system codebase I work in. I have known several developers that created these sorts of overly-engineered inheritance hierarchies seemingly just for their own sake. It’s awful, and it’s even worse when the original author leaves the company and leaves these sorts of unmaintainable blocs in our applications.
But I think there are definitely places where OOP is not only beneficial but just the correct solution for a part of the application. GUI for instance–all the various widget types and how they plug in to the UI system to handle mouse events and get drawn in the correct Z-order–it’s very intuitive. Of course you will find a subclass of a subclass of a subclass of Button every once in a while, and in these cases I do look for opportunities to use composition over inheritance.
By the way - can we talk about the author’s weird definition of composition? I’ve always defined composition as a class with a “has-a” relationship with other classes. But this author still defines it as classes with a “is-a” relationship to other classes, or in this case a single “generation” of inheritance. That seems bizarre to me, especially when they give this example:
In composition, this is a simple task: go to Dog class, add getTreat call in between eating and pooping. Done. 💪
And yet, their example of a Dog class following composition literally inherits from the Animal interface and does not have a point in which Dog can, internally, insert this getTreat() call:
class Dog implements Animal { doStuff() { consumeEnergy() println(“woof”) rest() } }
Lol… anyway, I like the sentiment of the article but I lean much farther toward just picking the correct tool for the job. Inheritance can still be the right solution in many cases and blaming a paradigm for code readability problems doesn’t seem as apt as, say, realizing that even in codebases where every commit has to be reviewed, at the end of the day you still have to ship product and there is never time to keep all code in perfect order, especially in large legacy systems*.
Does it compress from the middle out?