[garethrowlands]

Then again, abstractions can be helpful too, including in game programming. Epic's heavily invested, for example. Or in databases, relational algebra often beats out an array with linear access. I agree that OOP-in-the-small lacks mechanical sympathy though. That's one reason for entity-component-model, though another, I'd argue, is that it provides abstractions that are easier to reason about.

[pjmlp]

On Epic's case it helps that Tim Sweany started his game company doing games in VB, and always cared for a good developer experience, that is why Unreal Engine always favoured good abstractions, has a C++ GC, Blueprints and now Verse.

He was never a kind of "lets keep doing C in games" style of developer.

Thankfully, without the likes of Unreal, Unity and similar efforts, we would still be doing like it always was done here, kind of mentality.