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Mattia Maldini
Personal blog · maldus512.medium.comprogramming
Mattia Maldini's personal blog at maldus512.medium.com covers programming. Since 2021, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “There Are No Upsides to Object Oriented Programming”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this Medium author's posts on applying The Elm Architecture (Model-View-Update) to GUI code, including a Python/Tkinter implementation, and on arguments against OOP.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- There Are No Upsides to Object Oriented Programming2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-11-17
What Hacker News says?
The more I use Elm; and the more I look at other reactive frontends like React+Redux and Vue, the more I love thinking in The Elm Architecture ( https://guide.elm-lang.org/architecture/ ) aka Model-View-Update as a pattern for GUI development. To wit: Here's a way to implement it with Python and Tkinter for an old school reactive GUI. https://maldus512.medium.com/how-to-setup-correctly-an-appli...
Comment linking /how-to-setup-correctly-an-application-with-python-and-tkinter-107c6bc5a45
on “Iced: A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm”Submitted There Are No Upsides to Object Oriented Programming as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI've seen at least 3 (counting this), seemingly different sites on the first 2 pages of "new" advocating against OOP. What is even going on here? Spam? Something else? Previous articles: https://maldus512.medium.com/there-are-no-upsides-to-object-... https://alexanderdanilov.dev/en/articles/oop Looks suspicious IMO.
Comment linking /there-are-no-upsides-to-object-oriented-programming-7ba965786894
on “The case against OOP is understated, not overstated”