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The Tragic Death of Inheritance (avivcarmi.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Aviv-Carmi634@kbin.social to c/programming@kbin.social

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Languages on the rise like Rust and Go are being quite vocal against inheritance and many engineers seem to agree. Why? And is it the fall of inheritance?

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[–] tetris11@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I liked the idea of inheritance when you need to define a single thing and spawn it multiple times, but each class required exceptions, too many overrides to count, and usually I would spawn a thing either once or twice in my code, or 15000 times - neither scenario being optimal to having that many objects floating independently about. Sometimes an assoc. array is all you need.