I believe object-orientation is dated

I don't know how many advances might be happening recently on some underground Smalltalk mailing-list, but in general, OOP has remained the same for decades.

Does everybody think it's good enough? Does nobody want new features that will make your code more expressive somehow? Watcha think?

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The philosophy of functional programming won't help me (much)

you might have a different viewpoint if you were more familiar with functional programming. Even if you aren't using a restrictive language that forces no side effects, you can still apply the philosophy in other normally non-functional languages. And it can have very nice pay offs. For example, it may be nice to keep some data structures immutable if they are going to be accessed concurrently. And it may pay off to think in terms of mapping and reducing with higher order functions if you are going to take advantage of parallelism for crunching data. But this all depends on what problem you are currently trying to solve. The perks I mentioned wont be relevant if the application is single threaded, for example.