Object oriented programming has been a success, it's just not where people are looking for answers any more. The lifecycle for modestly successful technologies

Object oriented programming has been a success, it's just not where people are looking for answers any more. The lifecycle for modestly successful technologies often goes like: nobody understands it -> everybody scrambles to use it -> people start to get some benefit from it -> people overuse it -> people hate it and say it's dead -> people retreat to where it makes sense. Objects are as dead as methods or loops. They're not super interesting anymore, they're just fixtures. I agree that functional programming (while hardly new) will probably start to gain traction, similar to the cycle above. I think FP will also be a successful technology, eventually becoming a fixture in mainstream languages.