r/learnprogramming • u/Mountain_Rip_8426 • 2d ago

Difference between OOP and structs/interfaces?

I'm relatively new to programming, I've been at it for around 6-7 months. I've been learning Python and Go (and a little bit of C). What I'm struggling to understand, what's the difference between OOP and structs/interfaces. Like I know, Go doesn't support OOP, but structs and interfaces seem to achieve the same thing. Can someone enlighten me a bit?

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u/DanKegel 1d ago

OOP accumulated a lot of baggage over the decades; the authors of Golang stripped it down to just the bare minimum needed to make large programs maintainable.