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dnautics on May 3, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The compiler will optimize that away

> The other thing for which OO works much better than plain data is GUIs

I think the absolute dominance of React and its functional style (especially among juniors) is pretty good evidence against this belief.

kaba0 on May 3, 2021 [–]

It is pretty much an MVC separation that was mainstream in OOP-based GUI frameworks since the 90s at least.

But instead of “state”, you have a model, which uses the Observable pattern to notify the view of changes.

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