The singleton pattern is a fully paid up member of the GoF’s patterns book, but it lately seems rather orphaned by the developer world. I still use quite a lot of singletons, especially for factory classes, and while you have to be a bit careful about multithreading issues (like any class actually), I fail to see why they are so awful.
Stack Overflow especially seems to assume that everyone agrees that Singletons are evil. Why?
Please support your answers with “facts, references, or specific expertise“
