[$] Go and Rust — objects without class
Since the advent of object-oriented programming languages around the
time of Smalltalk in the 1970s, inheritance has been a mainstay of the
object-oriented vision. It is therefore a little surprising that both
"Go" and "Rust" — two relatively new
languages which support
object-oriented programming — manage to avoid mentioning it.
In this subscriber-only article, Neil Brown looks at how this classic
object-oriented concept has evolved in two recent languages.