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peerreynders

That's not the only angle.

Data-Oriented Design (Or Why You Might Be Shooting Yourself in The Foot With OOP) (2009).

Why?

Data-Oriented Design: What's wrong? — Mapping the problem:
"Object-oriented development is good at providing a human oriented representation of the problem in the source code but bad at providing a machine representation of the solution. It is bad at providing a framework for creating an optimal solution, …"

Which ultimately lead to the development of the Entities, Components, Systems (ECS) architecture.

"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry."
— Henry Petroski

The processor-memory performance gap (especially on commodity hardware) forced certain segments of the video games industry to abandon OOP.

This lead Unity to develop their "Data-Oriented Technology Stack" (DOTS) which introduced a C# dialect—"High Performance C#" (HPC#).

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Thomas Hansen

Brilliant walk through, thx mate :)