Sep 19, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min · 17 segments
Casey Muratori talks with Richard about Casey's 2025 talk "The Big OOPs" about the history of Object-Oriented Programming, as well as performance, architecture, software quality, and plenty of other…
Casey MuratoriGuest
Richard FeldmanHost
The reason that I kind of split on the OOP thing and the FP thing, where I'm like, I really just think OOP should kind of just go away completely, whereas FP I actually kind of really like, is it's because of what I think it does to a programmer's brain, right? That's actually the part that I care about.
I find myself not only enjoying but being well benefited to thinking about my code in terms of purely functional things from time to time.
It is a good mode for me to think in, right? Like my code benefits from me switching into a functional mindset now and again.
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The reason that I kind of split on the OOP thing and the FP thing, where I'm like, I really just think OOP should kind of just go away completely, whereas FP I actually kind of really like, is it's because of what I think it does to a programmer's brain, right? That's actually the part that I care about.
I find myself not only enjoying but being well benefited to thinking about my code in terms of purely functional things from time to time.
It is a good mode for me to think in, right? Like my code benefits from me switching into a functional mindset now and again.
