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>...those conversations are fuzzy and nuanced, and hard to have without real code examples.

This rings true to me. I've dabbled in several languages but started out with Java and for the longest time its style of OOP was how I approached building systems.

In the last 2 years though, I've had the opportunity to work with Typescript and it's been really nice choosing what approach you want to take (structs, functions, or objects). I've found that starting off with plain structs and functions has let our systems grow in a way that would have been constrained by Classifying things up front -- you really _do_ learn more about your application as you're writing them, so why paint yourself into a corner by dictating what data and operations have to go hand in hand upfront?