Friday, November 12, 2021

Object Oriented, Functional => Data-Oriented Programming

book: Data-Oriented Programming @ Manning

Data-oriented programming is an exciting new paradigm that eliminates the usual complexity caused by combining data and code into objects and classes. In DOP, you maintain application data in persistent generic data structures separated from the program’s code. You use general-purpose functions to manipulate the data without mutating it. This approach rids your applications of state-related bugs and makes your code much easier to understand and maintain.



(in) Data-Oriented Programming ... instead of objects, everything is data and everything can be acted upon. This separates the functionality and data. They no longer are intertwined by a specific rule set. In DOP your functions are general purpose and are applied to large chunks of data. Ideally, you would structure the data as closely to the output data as possible to ensure the least amount of effort is done by the function itself.


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