Casey Muratori on the History of Object-Oriented Programming
Better Software Conference · Talk · YouTube title: Casey Muratori – The Big OOPs: Anatomy of a Thirty-five-year Mistake – BSC 2025
Why it's here
HN commenters recommend it for its source-based history of OOP, though some dispute its account of Alan Kay.
What it covers
Casey Muratori's two-hour talk tracing the history of object-oriented programming back to the 1960s and examining how its ideas, and later entity component systems, came about. It is followed by a Q&A.