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[-] poopsmith@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 weeks ago

The OOP goons eventually won and Go added generics a few years back.

[-] gnutrino@programming.dev 27 points 2 weeks ago

Generics aren't really OOP, OOP tends to use run time dynamic dispatch through inheritance. Generics come from functional programming type constructors.

[-] Corbin@programming.dev 26 points 2 weeks ago

You're thinking of architecture astronauts when talking about generics. The biggest win of the object-oriented folks was to get a garbage collector included by default; compare and contrast with Rust, which ended up not having garbage collection.