Why do you think the industry keep circling back on old stuff?
Look at how much time we lost with OO. I am only recently coming to grips with how bad it is. C++ was the "thing you are interested in today" back then. And it wasn't well thought through.
C is great, agreed. That's the procedural paradigms I mentioned. But the others work very well if used appropriately.
> Why do you think the industry keep circling back on old stuff?
What does this even mean? Can you give some examples?
> Look at how much time we lost with OO
Okay, what do you mean by 'lost' because I find OO to be extremely useful (if used appropriately). Ditto functional, ditto logic.
Are you suggesting we should scrap all of these and just use code procedurally and nothing else? Because that would be a massive step backwards in my view, and I do have decades of experience so I can't understand why you're so negative about anything else but procedural. And maybe C++ was just a bad implementation in hindsight. But it took us a long way.
There is a lot of good wisdom from the 60s, 70s, 80s that people forget and end up re-inventing. I don't think I'm the first person to make this comment.
> OO
It's very subjective I'll admit. But I don't like OO, and it took me along time to realize why. There are many people who feel the same way. The difficulty is in explaining it. Because you have to look at large systems, explore the evolution of these systems, and pluck enough examples where things don't work.
You don't consider the fact that I've worked successfully with OO many times on various systems of various sizes to be of any significance, then tell me "there are a ton of resources online" which translates to "now go and google for viewpoints that support grumblingdev" instead of actually giving me any data.
You've given me nothing to work on, nothing to learn from, nothing I can even oppose because your objection is so nebulous. I can't even knock down your claims because you haven't really made any except "muh, OOP baaad". I haven't learnt anything, equally you haven't learnt anything... what was the bloody point in you saying anything at all?
> I think knowing that this viewpoint exists is a good lesson in itself
I'll skip the sarcastic reply and just say I draw rather different conclusions.
Look at how much time we lost with OO. I am only recently coming to grips with how bad it is. C++ was the "thing you are interested in today" back then. And it wasn't well thought through.
What were people doing before Rust?
C is great.