And if you program it in NodeJS, your brain will melt!
In the PHP/Java world, you most definitely need a getter and setter for (almost) every one of those properties, or you are violating the OOP directive. I think this is what Rich Hickey means when he complains about OOP “ceremony” - it is an utter waste of time. Then you get into object reflection when you need to write tests or deal with a broken/leaky interface, and then it really starts to feel as if you are doing something fundamentally wrong. OOP never really made sense to me, but everyone was doing it, so I had to follow along in my work.
