Faré gave a talk “Prototypes: Object-Orientation, Functionally” to our Toronto Lisp Group Sept. 5, 2023. My personal agenda is finding the “atoms” of programming (simplicity, clarity). I think that Faré nailed the questions of what is OO, what are Classes, what are Prototypes? https://github.com/metareflection/poof The slides from last night are https://github.com/metareflection/poof/blob/main/poof-slides-2023.rkt . With the caveat that the slides and talk are WIP. 30 LOC to implement Prototypes (and Classes) in any language that supports first class functions.

I like "incrementality" as a core objective.

Reminded of https://wiki.c2.com/?ClosuresAndObjectsAreEquivalent.