Rust Is Beyond Object-Oriented, Part 3: Inheritance

via Rust Weekly 🦀 (@rust_discussions@mastodon.social): On inheritance and why it’s good Rust doesn’t have it

Jimmy Hartzell continues his series on why Rust is beyond object-oriented programming, tackling inheritance — the most problematic of OOP’s three pillars. He makes a compelling case that inheritance’s appeal is largely based on misleading textbook examples (shapes, animals) that have little to do with real-world programming, and explains why Rust deliberately omits it in favor of better composition patterns.

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