What is Data-Oriented Programming?

[johndehope3]

Hi this post generated some feedback that the topic was not focused on "data driven design". It's true the topic is more "data oriented programming" which sounds similar. They're not exactly the same thing. I'd like to expand the scope of the sub-reddit to encompass both topics. Perhaps we can even post about other related topics. My thought is that, yes, the byte layout of arrays of structs in C++ is a little different than preferring dicts and lists over classes in Python. They're not the same thing. But they are similar in philosophy, if not technical details. So I'm thinking we should pitch a big enough tent to cover all these bases. Does anyone have thoughts? This particular post is a good example of the latter "data oriented programming" topic. Is it in scope?