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The Tragic Death of Inheritance
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2023
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I remember the old times where every class in my codebase extended
Databaseand I thought how clever that was and how cool inheritance is.It's still cool. Ain't nothing wrong with what ain't broke. Imagine programming without inheritance in many languages. Inheritance is another tool, to perform another task. Don't be afraid to learn any tool in your toolbox. And don't sweat about problems you may never have either. And have some things inherit, you're in good company still
I can think of maybe 1 or 2 places where inheritance makes sense, and I haven't encountered these in the last 5 years... (not counting implementing interfaces of course, which definitely makes sense). In all other cases inheritance is IMHO a bad decision (why I think it should not be a thing in programming languages, because it leads someone to write bad code, as it seemed to be the right thing to do...).