What are cons of usage only non-member functions and POD?

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Published on 2012-10-16T13:52:42Z Indexed on 2012/10/17 5:27 UTC
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I'm creating my own game engine. I've read these articles and this question about DOD and there was written to not use member functions and classes. I also heard some criticism to this idea.

I can write it using member functions or non-member functions it would be similar. So what are benefits/cons of that approach or when project grows, does any of these approaches give clearer and better manageable code?

With POD & non-member functions I don't have to make struct members public I can still use object id outside of engine like OpenGL does with all it's stuff, so It's not about encapsulation.

POD - plain old data

DOD - data oriented design

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