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It also changes every year or two. Plumbing, for instance, hasn't changed much in decades.

Have we solidified a little, though? I don't want to overindex on my particular biases given my particular age, but I feel like we ironed out the problems with object-oriented programming and reached a rough consensus about a functional/object-oriented hybrid where nobody likes too much inheritance.

Are we at a stable spot now or am I just overindexing on my personal understanding?

> I feel like we ironed out the problems with object-oriented programming and reached a rough consensus about a functional/object-oriented hybrid where nobody likes too much inheritance.

Python and NodeJS are some of your most popular tools and newborn programmers just started checks watch today and don't know what OOP is. They can write hello world if they download 500MB of packages first. Good luck.

Oh look, a new electron app!

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