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   Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 07:05:54 JST Julia Evans

   sometimes i find it funny that I learned about how inheritance works in object oriented programming in university when really the practice I've settled on for myself is "never implement code sharing with inheritance" which would have been a lot shorter

   (i feel like there's a whole story about the history of inheritance out there that could be very interesting to read though)

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     Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 07:06:15 JST Julia Evans

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     (this is coming up for me because I'm using Django, and I have to remind myself that even though django itself uses inheritance to expose a bunch of useful interfaces which work great I should not let that fact trick me into using inheritance to organize my own code)

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Jun-2026 07:06:29 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @b0rk Rust even enforces that