Go's Type System — Structs, Interfaces, and Life Without Inheritance (opens in new tab)

Go's Type System — Structs, Interfaces, and Life Without Inheritance In of this series I talked about why I'm picking up Go after six years of Java and Kotlin, plus a recent deep dive into Rust. This time I want to get into the part that actually changed how I think about designing code: Go has no class inheritance at all. Coming from the JVM world, that sentence sounded alarming the first time I read it. No extends. No abstract classes. No polymorphism through a class hierarchy. And yet Go b...