alt Hacker NewsRemember the OOP Hype 20 years ago? I'm still cleaning shit up from then in our codebase when everyone used patterns after skimming through the GoF book without even knowing why .... My prediction is in 20 years I will clean up the shit that was co-authored by Claude ...
https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@JeremiahFieldhaven/116654345...
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The idea that a lot of people have in their heads is that if the code doesn't fit the need, you'll just start over completely with a fresh codebase, because it's so fast to generate it.
In other words, there won't be 20-year-old code in this future.
We'll see if that comes to pass, but there's a lot of money betting that will happen; enough to where people will disregard what the downsides are.
my roommate at the time was trying to implment all the patterns from gof book at work. it was ridiculous but hype was ridiculous.
OOP and GoF are not the same thing - conflating the two has been the biggest mistake everyone has made (detractors and proponents alike)