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Composition over Inheritance

Go design philosophy.

Go Design Philosophy

Go deliberately omits class inheritance. The idiomatic approach is composition: build behavior by combining small types and interfaces.

Why Not Inheritance

Deep inheritance trees are brittle: a change in a base class ripples unpredictably. Composition keeps relationships explicit and flexible.

All lessons in this course

  1. Struct Embedding
  2. Interface Embedding
  3. Method Promotion
  4. Composition over Inheritance
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