If Inheritance Is So Bad, Why Does Everyone Use It?
- Hillel Wayne tl;dr: Hillel refers to an essay that says that inheritance is harmful and if possible you should "ban inheritance completely... “A lot of these arguments argue that in practice inheritance has problems. But they don't preclude inheritance working in another context, maybe with a better language syntax. And it doesn't explain why inheritance became so popular in the first place. I want to explore what's fundamentally challenging about inheritance and why we all use it anyway.”featured in #506
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