I don't think this is a failure of OOP itself, nor does it come down to any language's shortcomings.
I think it's mostly a market failure. The units of trade were complete software products and/or services/apps these days. Mostly because that's what the end users actually see on the desktop, the atomic unit of software is huge and perceptible.
Once upon a time, it looked like it could be different. Component-oriented systems arose. COM, CORBA, CommonPoint, Taligent, D'OLE etc.
(Heck, one might even argue for Amiga filetypes and embedded X windows to belong in the same category)
But apart from UI Widgets (ie. windows controls for VS or Delphi), it never seemed like there was a marketplace for it. It also was quite hard to sell to managers, as it's something you can't put in a box or have a big trademark for it.
So we ended up with fast food joints and black-box-systems, no ICs, condiments, recipes etc.
Open Source could've been an answer/alternative, but the OSS world mostly copies stuff from the programmer's day jobs.
(Gnome actually started out with CORBA and KDE had some component structure, too, but that doesn't appear to be anyone's focus, compared to copying notifications and doing flat redesigns)
I think it's mostly a market failure. The units of trade were complete software products and/or services/apps these days. Mostly because that's what the end users actually see on the desktop, the atomic unit of software is huge and perceptible.
Once upon a time, it looked like it could be different. Component-oriented systems arose. COM, CORBA, CommonPoint, Taligent, D'OLE etc. (Heck, one might even argue for Amiga filetypes and embedded X windows to belong in the same category)
But apart from UI Widgets (ie. windows controls for VS or Delphi), it never seemed like there was a marketplace for it. It also was quite hard to sell to managers, as it's something you can't put in a box or have a big trademark for it.
So we ended up with fast food joints and black-box-systems, no ICs, condiments, recipes etc.
Open Source could've been an answer/alternative, but the OSS world mostly copies stuff from the programmer's day jobs.
(Gnome actually started out with CORBA and KDE had some component structure, too, but that doesn't appear to be anyone's focus, compared to copying notifications and doing flat redesigns)