not denying "proper OOP". my point is that a lot of code does not need it. If u were writing the exact same code in go/nodejs/python, you would get by fine with

not denying "proper OOP". my point is that a lot of code does not need it. If u were writing the exact same code in go/nodejs/python, you would get by fine without it. You would not break the contract of maliciously trying to access variables that shouldnt be accessed. For example, a popular convention is to have underscored variable names (__thisisprivate). Works perfectly OK. 99% of getters/setters dont do anything more. They do exactly this. No validation, nothing. So I'm questioning the ordinary....not the special cases.