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From OOP to Rust: Composition, Not Inheritance

• Inheritance is key to OOP's success as a paradigm. Decades of successful software engineering has been done with Inheritance as a core part of business logic.

• So why did Rust avoid inheritance?

• How do we move from inheritance-based problem solving to Rust's approach?

• How do you represent heterogeneous collections in Rust?

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• In this section we'll be looking at how to move from thinking about polymorphic problem solving with types in OOP languages like java, C++ etc. to Rust's trait-based approach to Polymorphism.

• There will be differences, but there are also plenty of areas in common – especially with modern standards of OOP development. Remember to keep an open mind.

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