Brian Will: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "Object-Oriented Programming is Bad", hN returns to it as the go-to critique of OOP, recommended for explaining the costs of abstraction better than most written arguments.
- 13 HN recommenders 9 months 2016–2025commentaryHN returns to it as the go-to critique of OOP, recommended for explaining the costs of abstraction better than most written arguments.
- 6 HN recommenders 5 months 2016–2025commentaryHN commenters point to it as a sharp, example-driven critique of OOP and Clean Code style, often alongside Brian Will's other anti-OO videos.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2016–2022lectureHN recommends it as a concrete, worked example of the case against heavy OOP rather than abstract argument.
Questions
Which Brian Will video does Hacker News recommend most?
Object-Oriented Programming is Bad: recommended in 9 different months by 13 HN users between 2016 and 2025.
Is this every Brian Will video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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