Comment on What is OOP, really? Why so many different definitions?
Pipoca@lemmy.world 11 months agoJavascript is generally considered OOP, but classes weren’t widely available till 2017.
Inheritance isn’t fundamental to OOP, and neither are interfaces. You can have a duck- typed OOP language without inheritance, although I don’t know of any off the top of my head.
Honestly, the more fundamental thing about OOP is that it’s a programming style built around objects. Sometimes OO languages are class based, or duck typing based, etc. But you’ll always have your data carrying around it’s behavior at runtime.
DmMacniel@feddit.de 11 months ago
JavaScript has been OOP since I can remember due to its prototypal nature. Change something on an inherited prototype, and every descendant also get those changes. And “classes” is just syntax sugar for that prototype mechanism.