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Then again, abstractions can be helpful too, including in game programming. Epic's heavily invested, for example. Or in databases, relational algebra often beat

Then again, abstractions can be helpful too, including in game programming. Epic's heavily invested, for example. Or in databases, relational algebra often beats out an array with linear access. I agree that OOP-in-the-small lacks mechanical sympathy though. That's one reason for entity-component-model, though another, I'd argue, is that it provides abstractions that are easier to reason about.

pjmlp 3y ago
On Epic's case it helps that Tim Sweany started his game company doing games in VB, and always cared for a good developer experience, that is why Unreal Engine always favoured good abstractions, has a C++ GC, Blueprints and now Verse. He was never a kind of "lets keep doing C in games" style of developer. Thankfully, without the likes of Unreal, Unity and similar efforts, we would still be doing like it always was done here, kind of mentality.