replaces Classes with Functions
code is still parsed from the top down and some functions are more privileged than others
It’s just like Lenin wanted!
Sometimes I still see job postings that are like “MUST KNOW OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING” and I’m wondering who in 2026 isn’t at least passably familiar with it.
But then again I also see job posts that are like “must know Java or JavaScript”
A lot of those posts will also include shit like must know XML and AJAX and it’s clear the recruitment division hadn’t updated their template in ages.
So many sites still use that with a shiny UI slapped on top.
What is not clear is if the software development division updated their practices.
Exactly, if there’s even the slightest risk that I’ll need to dust off the good ol ajax that’s a nope from me.
There’s a lot of legacy stuff around. I saw some CORBA in the wild recently.
Considering most people only know procedural programming and are calling it functional/objective…
in 2026 you really have to ask an employer what they mean by object oriented programming in the interview. do they mean a methodology of organizing pure functional code into actors and message busses? do they mean imperitive code that’s interacted with through generic interfaces as with python? or do they mean javascipt style OOP where you define classes to organize your imperitive code within a functional language without any concern for the generic interfaces this could hypothetically enable?
Seize the means of prod!
Or just prod! Seize prod
Deploy broken code straight to prod?
Testing is for those who are not confident in their programming skills.
testing is doubting
Or do as Alan Kay wants and start calling it “Message-Oriented Programming”.
“I’m sorry that I long ago coined the term “objects” for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea. The big idea is “messaging”.”
https://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998-October/017019.html
I still get sad when I think about Objective C and how it didn’t take off vs C++ just because it had ugly syntax (which becomes beautiful once you understand why it is the way it is)
Why is it the way it is?
Object.property = theft;
sieze(worker, ObjectFactory.meansOfProduction);
Fuck OOP all my homies use DOD.
Department of defense?
It’s DoW now, baby. And apparently, it’s over 50,000!
