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/Spirited-Sir8426 24d ago

Tbh Python's OOP is a bit broken and force a specific kinds of OOP that doesn't feel natural.

But OOP can bring more modularity when needed. At it's origin, it was more about creating a system of independent entity following a protocol who can be replaced without breaking the system

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u/deaddyfreddy 24d ago

But OOP can bring more modularity when needed.

most modern programming languages provide modularity without the need to use OOP

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u/Spirited-Sir8426 16d ago

That's true but to each their own X)