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		throw_m239339 on April 11, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If Inheritance is so bad, why does everyone use it... > Pragmatists used inheritance Because at some point mainstream OO languages made inheritance easy and composition harder, nothing more. Composition with Java used to be verbose. Inheritance declaration was simply a single keyword. If Java had "mixins" from the start, people would have used composition way more.

StressedDev on April 11, 2024 [–]

I saw a lot more composition than inheritance in C++ and C#. I think inheritance and polymorphism have their place. Like anything, they can be misused.

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