alt Hacker NewsI'm not a fan of the recent trend in software development, started by the OOP craze but in the modern day largely driven by Rust advocates, of noun-based programming, where type hierarchies are the primary interface between the programmer and the code, rather than the data or the instructions. It's just so... dogmatic. Inexpressive. It ultimately feels to me like a barrier between intention and reality, another abstraction. The type system is the program, rather than the program being the program. But speaking of dogma, the author's insistence that not abiding by this noun-based programming model is a form of 'lying' is quite the accusatory stretch of language... but I digress at the notion that I might just be a hit dog hollering.
The kind of noun-based programming you don’t like is great for large teams and large code bases where there is an inherent communication barrier based on the number of people involved. (N choose 2 = N*(N-1)/2 so it grows quadratically.) Type hierarchies need to be the primary interface between the programmers and the code because it communicates invariants on the data more precisely than words. It is dogmatic, because that’s the only way it could work for large teams.
When you are the only programmer, this matters way less. Just do whatever based on your personal taste.