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0 pointsxxs2y ago0 comments

Inheritance used to be extremely common, look at AWT/Swing - however more or less it finished there, e.g. more than 20y back.

There are still lots of folks who love 'protected' and deep hierarchies, of course. There is stuff like spring that uses way too many interfaces with a single implementation, doing something a bit off the regular road ends up implementing tons of the said interfaces anew.

However the 'hate' part is mostly the internet (well esp. Hacker news)warrior topic

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sisve2y ago

Great to hear. I used to program java in 2010 and inheritance was still beeing heavily used back then. But things change, if both the lang and the main community has change to focus more on simplicity its def worth looking at again. Coroutines and pattern matching is really good features

insanitybit2y ago

Contrast that, I've seen numerous Java codebases, young and old, and inheritance is very much one of the core ways that people program.

I strongly suspect that in a few cases some Java devs using net new systems and avoiding common frameworks will perhaps be able to avoid lots of inheritance but I find it insane to say that that's common or even easy.

umanwizard2y ago

Inheritance is heavily used in Java in 2023, at least in projects I’ve had to look at.

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