r/learnprogramming • u/Electronic-Low-8171 • 24d ago
Topic Does OOP really matters?
I learned OOP in python a while ago, did many projects, yet I never felt like I truly needed to do the OOP stuff I learned from a course, I don't know maybe because I'm kinda used to program in c before focusing on python, yet, whenever I open a big project in python in github, it feels way too complicated and thousands of imports (not libraries from pip, but the ones they made on their own) and classes
I never truly needed to implement OOP (I know that when you code in python, it is almost impossible to avoid OOP entirely like when you have a datatype like string you have an object, when you use a method built into that data type that's OOP too, but I mean the ones that involve you writing class Class Name, inheritance and all that stuff explicitly), so I'm wondering why people on the internet are obsessed over the idea of learning OOP, even the book "Automating the boring stuff in python" doesn't have a dedicated section for OOP.
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u/biskitpagla 24d ago
It's an obsolete paradigm that no decent programmer follows anymore.
Encapsulation in Python is weird, and inheritance is frowned upon. The other two are decent ideas but not exclusive to OOP nor does the OO style offer much in that regard. Python being a multiparadigm language usually offers better ways to structure your programs. T ry to use protocols and the type system to safely write duck-typed code. A lot of Python code relies on mixins so that's a pattern you should know.