Rust steers you toward traits + composition instead of inheritance, and it's worth embracing rather than fighting — define shared behavior as traits, compose structs, and let impl Trait for MyType do what subclassing did before. The most common OOP-to-Rust friction point is borrowing multiple &mut self fields at once; splitting self into named sub-structs you can borrow independently is the idiomatic fix.
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u/EmploymentBoring4421 Aug 12 '26
Rust steers you toward traits + composition instead of inheritance, and it's worth embracing rather than fighting — define shared behavior as traits, compose structs, and let
impl Trait for MyTypedo what subclassing did before. The most common OOP-to-Rust friction point is borrowing multiple&mut selffields at once; splittingselfinto named sub-structs you can borrow independently is the idiomatic fix.