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Re:Inheritance was invented as a performance hack by rst on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:37AM (#26993282)
... which does put both cars and bicycles in the same queue, but doesn't eliminate the copy-paste for each new type completely; 'car' and 'bicycle' still wind up with separate 'get_speed' impls, which are textually identical aside from the type names.
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Re:Inheritance was invented as a performance hack by Tyr42 on Friday April 30, 2021 @12:14PM (#26995375)
Sure, traits talk about functions, not properties/ strict fields, so you need to provide trivial getters if you want to abstract over properties.

True, but not that interesting? Sure we could have some Ruby :get_attrs magic or whatever.

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Re:Inheritance was invented as a performance hack by cyphar on Friday April 30, 2021 @09:53AM (#26993479)
Usually the way people solve this in Rust is with macros.
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