Sometimes I still see job postings that are like "MUST KNOW OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING" and I'm wondering who in 2026 isn't at least passably familiar with it.

But then again I also see job posts that are like "must know Java or JavaScript"

[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A lot of those posts will also include shit like must know XML and AJAX and it’s clear the recruitment division hadn’t updated their template in ages.

[–] bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

There’s a lot of legacy stuff around. I saw some CORBA in the wild recently.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What is not clear is if the software development division updated their practices.

[–] MirrorGiraffe@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

Exactly, if there's even the slightest risk that I'll need to dust off the good ol ajax that's a nope from me.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 22 points 1 day ago

in 2026 you really have to ask an employer what they mean by object oriented programming in the interview. do they mean a methodology of organizing pure functional code into actors and message busses? do they mean imperitive code that's interacted with through generic interfaces as with python? or do they mean javascipt style OOP where you define classes to organize your imperitive code within a functional language without any concern for the generic interfaces this could hypothetically enable?