rubyist5evaon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Why OO Sucks by Joe Armstrong (2000)”
I highly recommend "Object Oriented Programming is Bad" and "Object Oriented Programming is Embarrassing" on Youtube. link link to this video
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Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples
Brian Will
100K subscribers • 5 videos on Hallway
- Recommended by 8 people: 6 on Hacker News, 1 on Lobsters and 1 in engineering communities.
- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2016 to 2025.
- Presented by Brian Will
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
2.2M views10 years ago8 recommendations
Software designProgramming languagesObject-oriented designDesign patternsSimplicity and complexity
Brian Will walks through four code examples to demonstrate how object-oriented design introduces unnecessary complexity and scatters state.
A follow up to youtube.com/watch?v=QM1iUe6IofMWhy it's here
8 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended as a compelling critique of object-oriented programming and Clean Code practices through concrete examples.
ravenstineon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Python classes aren’t always the best solution”
One of my favorites: "Object-Oriented Programming is Bad" link Followed by "Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples". link to this video
friendlysockon Lobsters • Recommends
Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples
I had an extremely negative gut reaction when I first started watching this video, but as it proceeded, I started to think that the author might have some semblance of a point.
It'd be a fun discussion topic either way! :)
DrScumpon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Inheritance Is Terrible”
Perhaps the Brian Will anti-OO videos provide more useful examples: link "Object-Oriented Programming is Bad" link to this video "Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples"
smnplkon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Object-Oriented Programming and Essential State”
Check out this video link to this video from Brian Will, where he dissects 4 different code examples. I think one of the examples is also some Java code from Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin.
lazulicurioon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]”
There was an article on state in OOP posted here a few days ago that I found very thought-provoking1. The blog post and related youtube videos are pretty interesting as well234. 1 link 2 link 3 link 4 link to this video
pentaphobeon Hacker News • Recommends
On “It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)”
Somewhat relatedly (covers some very similar concerns and IIRC even references "Clean Code"), Brian Wills has a few good videos link link to this video
thunderbongon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example [video]”
Previous videos Object-Oriented Programming is Bad link Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples link to this video I'm watching the 'is Bad' one, and honestly, it rings too close to my experience. Need to think about this a bit more deeply!
lj3on Hacker News • Mentions
On “Talks that changed the way I think about programming”
There are three talks, actually. Here are the other two. Object-Oriented Programming is Embarrassing: 4 Short Examples0 Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example1 0: link to this video 1: link
u/differentsmokein r/ProgrammingLanguages • Mentions
On “Everything is an Object....”
…it is not like OOP makes it impossible for software to be written, so I would ask what exactly do you mean by "wide applicability" (again, considering Turing completeness) and "success", by some measure other than popularity.
For more detailed discussions about why OOP isn't great, I leave these two YouTube videos with which I happen to agree:
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u/tbm206in r/functionalprogramming • Mentions
On “Why OOP sucks?”
link to this video
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u/ken-amazingin r/ocaml • Mentions
On “Object-Oriented Programming — The Trillion Dollar Disaster”
Also checkout OOP is Embarrassing: link to this video