Comment by bluGill
7 hours ago
OOP is very useful/powerful, don't throw the good parts out. Java messed up by deciding everything must be an object when there are many other useful way to program. (you can also argue that smalltalk had a better object model, but even then all objects isn't a good thing). Functional programing is very powerful and a good solution to some problems. Procedural programing is very powerful and a good solution to some problems. You can do both in Java - but you have to wrap everything in an object anyway despite the object not adding any value.
> everything must be an object when there are many other useful way to program.
Perhaps you would prefer a multi-paradigm programming language?
http://mozart2.org/mozart-v1/doc-1.4.0/tutorial/index.html
Java was derived from C++, Smalltalk, and arguably Cedar, and one of its biggest differences from C++ and Smalltalk is that in Java things like integers, characters, and booleans aren't objects, as they are in C++ and Smalltalk. (Cedar didn't have objects.)
Right. Everything a user can do is object, but there are a few non-object built ins. (they are not objects in C++ either, but C++ doesn't make everything you write be an object)
In C++ integers and characters are objects. See https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/objects.html, for example, which explicitly mentions "unsigned char objects", "a bit-field object", "objects of type char", etc.
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