• FunkyCheese@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    I learned about it in school and we didna few assignments for it

    But… never seen or heard anyone mention it outside of that

    I guess we can make up some nische vases

    I did hear it can be useful for video games though. But then again im sure people can manage fint without, as well

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      10 hours ago

      It’s wildly useful, when you store a lot of similar stuff, or treat a lot of similar stuff etc.

      Like a GUI, a rendering engine or a scientific soft. Video games, any soft with users, and so on.

      I get that people misuse it but for me it’s wild that people think you should like program without it, like at all cost.

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      10 hours ago

      We use it a lot when we have a solution that works for 95% of customers and a few need random things.

      Else we will have multiple markets changing the same function with a thousand if else

      Main issue is that makes it so that some functions are never generalized, like when customer A wanted to use an equal filter, customer B wanted a IN filter, and the rest have no filtering capability at all.