That clutter is only necessary in cluttered languages like Java; it is only necessary to learn it if you're using one. It's perfectly safe to put it off until y

That clutter is only necessary in cluttered languages like Java; it is only necessary to learn it if you're using one. It's perfectly safe to put it off until you need to. Passing around objects without having to understand their innards is part of what's generally thought to be good about most definitions of OOP. Being able to understand them is part of learning the language, of course.