Daniel Jackson's 'Beyond Objects' Challenges 50 Years of Object-Oriented Partitioning

arXiv 2606.27258·medium signal

MIT's Daniel Jackson (of Alloy and Software Abstractions) argues that the core OO principle — partitioning system functionality among objects that mirror problem-domain individuals — is neither natural nor straightforward, and that later software-engineering developments built on it inherited the same fragmentation problems they tried to fix. It's a foundational re-examination of how we structure software after half a century of OO orthodoxy. Worth reading for anyone rethinking architecture in an era of AI-generated code.