> Rust has straightforward support for every part of OOP other than implementation inheritance

Except the only thing that makes OOP OOP: Message passing.

Granted, Swift only just barely supports it, and only for the sake of interop with Objective-C. Still, Swift has better OO support because of it. Rust doesn't even try.

Not that OOP is much of a goal. There is likely good reason why Smalltalk, Objective-C, and Ruby are really the only OOP languages in existence (some esoteric language nobody has ever heard of notwithstanding).

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zozbot234 5 hours ago | parent [-]

You just need to define a trait, then you can use dynamic dispatch.

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9rx 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You can, but then you don't get any of what OOP actually offers. Message passing isn't the same thing as dynamic dispatch. OOP is a very different paradigm.

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anonymars 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I think you are both unknowingly talking past each other: my understanding is that Smalltalk-style "object-oriented programming" ("everything is a message!") is quite distinct from C++/C#/Java/Rust "object-oriented programming" ("my structs have methods!")

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