Rather than going for Functional Programming or Object-Orientated Programming exclusively, you can go for a mixed approach, at in languages that support both such as JavaScript or Python.
For example, you can still use classes and then pass a class instance to your function.
Below we have a simplified code example. There is a generic function which accepts a dictionary / associative array, or an object instance.
function getAge(obj) { return obj.age } foo = new Car(name="Toyota", age=20) getAge(foo) // 20 bazz = { name: "Monster Truck", age: 5 } cars = [foo, bar, bazz] ages = cars.map(getAge) // [ 20, 10, 5 ] The function doesn't care what type class is as long as it has the expected field. And you could use a type or interface in TypeScript to enforce this at compile time.
Maybe you can move all your methods out to functions in a module. Though if you end up just using your class to hold data and not have any methods, then consider another object type that is more suitable.
Like a dictionary / associative array. You can use types in TypeScript or Python (using Mypy) to enforce this. I have instructions for how to apply Mypy to your Python project here.
In Python you can use a namedtuple, which is immutable and let's you use the class-style syntax of getting attributes instead of using a string key.
Based on example. See also namedtuple in PY3 docs.
import collections Person = collections.namedtuple('Person', 'name age gender') bob = Person(name='Bob', age=30, gender='male') bob.gender # 'male' Or from Python 3.7, use a dataclass. This will not enforce the types - you'll still need Mypy to check that.
from dataclasses import dataclass @dataclass class Point: x: int y: int p = Point(1, 2) 
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