talk · intermediate · evergreen
Stop Writing Classes
Next Day Video · Mar 15, 2012 · 27m 29s
What this video covers
Jack Diederich's PyCon 2012 talk argues that classes are overused in Python and walks through real code, refactoring away unnecessary classes, exceptions and modules. It popularized the heuristic that a class with two methods, one being __init__, should be a function.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
HN returns to it repeatedly as the canonical argument for simplicity and against premature abstraction, and several commenters say it changed how they write code.
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
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“Stop writing classes is one of my favorites.”