Webel: Mathematica: WISHLIST: Support for decent vendor-supported, built-in, fully fledged, IDE-friendly, object-orientation (OO)! [With or without the use of state, which is a choice, not obligatory, and OO doesn't throw functional away]

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While one can achieve a basic form of some of the data organisation of OO with the Mathematica Entity system, that has many limitations, it still requires far too much custom massaging.

Mathematica needs decent vendor-supported built-in Wolfram-language OO and integration of said OO with Wolfram Workbench and other IDEs

Although a valiant attempt, the user contributed MTools is home-baked, half-baked, and (because it was started some time ago), does not leverage the latest capabilities of MMA. Perhaps it is a candidate for rollover to fully vendor-supported OO.

And then there are some old "toy implementations" on stackexchange, not exactly the level of support one could recommend as an industrial strength solution to a client.

Visit also: Mathematica: The slightly less painful ultimate list of links on Object-Orientation (or the lack thereof) and a public plea to Wolfram Research

Visit also: Webel: Programmers who can count higher than one (1) know that you don't have to choose exclusively between object-orientation (and classes) and functional programming. You can have your cake and eat it. It's not XOR!

TIP: Mathematica: COMING SOON! Webel's ultimate guide to using Abstract Data Types to create pseudo-classes WITH INHERITANCE in Wolfram Language, all modelled in SysML! [There's already some examples and some detailed policy notes.]

Relates to

[STUB] TRAIL: Mathematica: The Webel recipe for Abstract Data Type (ADT) pseudo classes with inheritance for the Wolfram Language

Dr Darren of Webel IT Australia makes the case for better object-orientation for Mathematica using pseudo class ADTs without losing the super-functional power of the Wolfram Language

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