D now has a dangerous competitor

[Nick Sabalausky]

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.