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It's not age. I have a uni mate the exact same age as me and we worked together and still talk about work.

He's the kind that would do his own oop framework in plain C (true story) while I would rather do the minimum necessary for things to work (well, if that includes UNAVOIDABLE complexity, so be it). It was like that when we were 25, it's the same 20 years later.

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Well now I'm confused about which type I am. I consider myself a "simplifier", but writing your own OOP framework sounds fun I would have definitely chosen that route.

I think both types can enjoy fun diversions. I think being a "simplifier" just means you can make a distinction between diversions and solutions.

For me, every additional moving part has a cost, and that cost needs to be amortized over sufficient use-cases. Sometimes writing your own OOP framework in C is just what the doctor ordered. Sometimes it isn't.

It sounds like fun, but would you choose to do that in a work setting?

Well I would surely do functions with a naming convention working on structs. Unless it's embedded development.

I wouldn't do a system of macros that allows me to "automatically" simulate inheritance etc though :)

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