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It seems the community is severely overexposed to bad practices and implementations of OOP and conversely severely underexposed to the success stories.

153 comments as of time of writing, let's see.

C-F: Java: 21 C++: 31 Python: 23 C#: 2

And yet: Pascal: 1 (!) Delphi: 0 VCL: 0 Winforms: 0 Ruby: 2 (in one comment)

This is not a serious conversation about merits of OOP or lack thereof, just like Casey's presentation is not a serious analysis - just a man venting his personal grudges.

I get that, it's completely justified - Java has a culture of horrible overengineering and C++ is, well, C++, the object model is not even the worst part of that mess. But still, it feels like there is a lack of voices of people for whom the concept works well.

People can and will write horrible atrocities in any language with any methodologies; there is at least one widely used "modern C++" ECS implementation built with STL for example (which itself speaks volumes), and there is a vast universe of completely unreadable FP-style TypeScript code out there written by people far too consumed by what they can do to stop for a second and think if they should.

I don't know why Casey chose this particular hill to die on, and I honestly don't care, but we as a community should at least be curious if there are better ways to do our jobs. Sadly, common sense seems to have given way to dogma these days.