That's not being 'dead' though. That's just choosing the right tool for the job at hand. It's like proclaiming conventional spanners dead now that you can get

That's not being 'dead' though. That's just choosing the right tool for the job at hand. It's like proclaiming conventional spanners dead now that you can get adjustable spanners. Some jobs you want solid object based exception handling water tight programming, and other jobs you want loose runtime based functional stuff.