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[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Was gonna say just this. Inheritance is powerful but something to reach for sparingly. 80% of the time aggregation and composition can solve the problems.

I’ve cleaned up too many inheritance nightmares in my day from people who insisted inheritance was the way to go.