video games are oop for historical reasons mostly. ue6 is built on verse which is a crazy functional language. carmack himself flirted with haskel and racket. b

video games are oop for historical reasons mostly. ue6 is built on verse which is a crazy functional language. carmack himself flirted with haskel and racket. but games are so perf oriented that for a long time the only options were c or c++ (c style ofc). the current trend are ecs's which are distinctly not classical oop