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I think that’s a major simplification of what’s going on in software development. Alan Kay invented OO, and everyone says the same thing about OO - that it’s ov

I think that’s a major simplification of what’s going on in software development. Alan Kay invented OO, and everyone says the same thing about OO - that it’s over complicated and slows down development. And then everyone replies with, “well that’s not _real_ OO - if you did OO right the software would be perfect!” Except real OO cannot be done. So, yea types are a tool and should be used wisely. But let’s not pretend like there’s some magical methodology out there that removes complexity from software.

formulathree 3y ago
Functional programming does this. Probably not Haskell level ninja types or passing functions around like dependency injection, but the idea of separating state and io away from pure logic does indeed remove complexity. Ironically the separation of state away from logic is why backend web development tends to be easier than say game development.