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Quekid5 4 days ago  [ - ]

> I can't imagine building something like a graphics framework without some subtyping.

While React technically uses some OOP, in practice it's a pretty non-OOP way do UI. Same with e.g. ImGUI (C++), Clay (C). I suppose for the React case there's still an OOP thing called the DOM underneath, but that's pretty abstracted.

In practice most of the useful parts of OOP can be done with a "bag/record of functions". (Though not all. OCaml has some interesting stuff wrt. the FP+OOP combo which hasn't been done elsewhere, but that may just be because it wasn't ultimately all that useful.)

mike_hearn 3 days ago  [ - ]

React is a kind of strange dysfunctional OOP pretending not to be, to appeal to people like those on this thread ;)

Function calls have state, in React. Think about that for a second! It totally breaks the most basic parts of programming theory taught in day one of any coding class. The resulting concepts map pretty closely:

• React function -> instantiate or access a previously instantiated object.

• useState -> define an object field

• Code inside the function: constructor logic

• Return value: effectively a getResult() style method

The difference is that the underlying stateful objects implemented in OOP using inheritance (check out the blink code) is covered up with the vdom diffing. It's a very complicated and indirect way to do a bunch of method calls on stateful objects.

The React model doesn't work for a lot of things. I just Googled [react editor component] and the first hit is https://primereact.org/editor/ which appears to be an ultra-thin wrapper around a library called Quill. Quill isn't a React component, it's a completely conventional OOP library. That's because modelling a rich text editor as a React component would be weird and awkward. The data structures used for the model aren't ideal for direct modification or exposure. You really need the encapsulation provided by objects with properties and methods.

MobiusHorizons 3 days ago  [ - ]

React is most likely not what the author had in mind by a graphics framework. The browser implementation of the DOM or a desktop widget system is much more likely the idea.

pjmlp 3 days ago  [ - ]

While using a OOP language.

    Welcome to Node.js v24.10.0.
    Type ".help" for more information.
    > const fn = (x) => x + x
    undefined
    > typeof(fn)
    'function'
    > Object.getOwnPropertyNames(fn)
    [ 'length', 'name' ]
    > fn.name
    'fn'
    > fn.length
    1
    > Object.getPrototypeOf(fn)
    [Function (anonymous)] Object