• Jummit@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    Actually, I like encapsulating global state in a structured and documented construct. But I guess I could see Java developers going overboard with abstraction in an imperative language.

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      1 year ago

      I think, the point is that in Python (like Rust) that construct is a module. In Java, a module does not exist in that sense. You put everything into classes in Java and static classes, i.e. singleton objects, are what you use instead of modules…

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      There are good reasons to do singletons in python. But your first instinct shouldn’t be to jump straight to one