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0 pointsotaviokz7y ago0 comments

As someone who transitioned from Java to C#/.Net to Objective-C and finally to Swift, AMEN TO THAT!

I learned not to say anything as apparently every software engineer "generation" needs to follow something "hip" when very young. Some will grow to see the cycle as it repeats itself in front of them, others will die believing "my programming language was the best, you just had to stick to this list of best practices".

Also, "bad design" quite often means "not the way I'm used to and feel comfortable with".

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wool_gather7y ago

There's an element of this even within the community of a single language, too. E.g., Apple's been doing Swift talks at WWDC where they sort of introduce their blow-your-mind-paradigm-of-the-year: "Protocol Oriented Programming" was two years ago; "Embrace Algorithms (subtitle: delete your for loops)" was this year.

It concerns me because these are such lush, ripe targets for cargoculting. The behavior in this article is problematic exactly because of the "Apple says we must not use inheritance for anything! I can just use a protocol extension; that's totally not inheritance" mindset.

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