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[โ€“] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The lack of inheritance is my favorite feature in a programming language

[โ€“] Ephera@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

I actually agree. This is my sneaky attempt at educating people about impl Deref. Although, I am still not sure how to feel about it, since I do actually see quite some similarities with inheritance...

[โ€“] goedelchen@mastodontech.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

@Ephera that feels wrong, somehow ...

You can have the thing you are dereferencing to be a trait, so you can change your "base class" at runtime.

At least, you can't have multiple inheritance with impl Deref (I hope / as far as I can see)