[rellekio]

Your right about the sync and dependency issue. Big reason why in JS land you treat each mutation of the data as immutable destruction and refresh of an object is to eliminate any old references that might not of been cleaned up by the garbage collector.

Data Oriented Programmming is both old and new. In that it does not have the same amount of programming patterns that OOP has. As it is a more bare metal means of programming without a ton of abstraction to ease most programmers into it.

Where I find the idea interesting is concurrent and parallel processes are more natural in the data oriented. And that is through immutablility and ownership as first principles.