Although I do agree data flow programming can be useful sometimes, it has been pointed out that data oriented design is not about data flow: https://sites.google.com/site/macton/home/onwhydodisntamodel...

And taking from the other side of the view, even when you consider high performance data flow programming, there're great people pointing out going functional might not be a very good idea: https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Ramblings-on-languages...