This is a pretty good discussion and I’m surprised that while discussing OOP not much was brought up in the way of managing private versus shared memory which I

This is a pretty good discussion and I’m surprised that while discussing OOP not much was brought up in the way of managing private versus shared memory which I think depending on the platform is not as universal as we all hoped it would be by now. Marshalling objects with pointers accessing vtables over uneven terrain is how it goes down. I think here is a good example: https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitIDL https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitIDL And to further that point there is no more Safari on Windows for this reason among many others. Remember MemMaker? It’s crazy there were so few applications we managed some of the memory ourselves but it worked very well didn’t it? OOP really took off back then too and then memory utilities were not needed and didn’t last too long. The convenience of not worrying about it is one of the many things OOP was able to solve as it advanced. It is still pulling off the same tricks today in a much more complex and metered way. OOP does so much more than just this of course but the solutions developed with it for managing memory are intense and as much art as science. So we should question it and many paradigms to make this better. A mentor of mine when explaining this would compare it to juggling...and then proceed to actually start juggling while talking about his code. He’d stop and look up, just pause, and say that’s all we are doing here just juggling.