Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
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Casey Muratori's two-hour talk tracing the history of object-oriented programming back to the 1960s and examining how its ideas, and later entity component systems, came about. It is followed by a Q&A.
Why HN recommends it: HN commenters recommend it for its source-based history of OOP, though some dispute its account of Alan Kay.
“which really is hunting back and back for the cosmogenesis of objects, and covers so much terrain.” Read on HN ↗