How I went about learning Rust

Re:How I went about learning Rust by nicoburns on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:48AM (#32106790)

It definitely works differently to C++/Java/Python, but IMO this is one place where Rust is a huge improvement. You are effectively always generic over an interface (trait in Rust) rather than a base class, and this is much more flexible as a given strict can implement as many interfaces as it likes rather than being stuck in one class hierarchy (or having to deal with the pain of multiple inheritance)

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Re:How I went about learning Rust by pjmlp on Friday July 15, 2022 @06:59AM (#32106853)

It is no different than using interfaces, protocols, pure virtual base classes....

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Re:How I went about learning Rust by dllthomas on Friday July 15, 2022 @09:11AM (#32107793)

It's similar, but there are some differences. Notably, my package can implement my trait for your type, while my package (usually? always?) cannot make your type inherit from my virtual base class.

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Re:How I went about learning Rust by pjmlp on Friday July 15, 2022 @09:36AM (#32108032)

Depends on the flexibitly of the language, there isn't a golden way to do that across all variations of OOP.

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Re:How I went about learning Rust by eklavya on Friday July 15, 2022 @01:13PM (#32110442)

Wrapper classes should be equally good once Valhalla (jdk) lands, without introducing another pointer indirection.

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Re:How I went about learning Rust by adamc on Friday July 15, 2022 @02:46PM (#32111488)

Interesting but Java gets more and more complex in a way that does not make me want to write things in Java.

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