Switching away from OOP | Casey Muratori

So after many years programming, and having used a lot of OOP, as well as having tried to apply principals from books like Clean Code, I mostly learned that this abstractions are a bad way to organize complex systems. I'm not the only engine programmer that thinks that, here's a short video were Casey explains how his first version of RAD's animation library was a mess due to the OOP design. For longer form arguments, I'd suggest this talk from Mike Acton and this presentation from Brian Will. That is not to say that you shouldn't think about high level system architecture, but the way I do those now do not use features like Inheritance hierarchies, interface, SOLID and stuff like th…

link to this video Another really good video about this

100% There are a myriad of extremely intelligent, career software engineers that talk about it being garbage. Linus Torvald literally made linux and has regularly talked about how OOP is trash https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11577834 Mads Torgersen is literally the lead C# designer and was quoted as saying that OOP is not good for cloud programming and that functional is a much better approach for modern cloud development. Rob Pike, one of the creators of UTF-8 and the Go programming language famously criticized OOP saying it "often leads to overly complex design and shifts a programmer's focus away from fundamental concepts like data and algorithms" Jonathan Blow , a legendary…