Comment by kasey_junk
Comment by kasey_junk 6 days ago
Go absolutely has classes, polymorphism and encapsulation (I don’t know Rust) and many, many packages in go follow extremely common OO patterns.
The 2 differences in go are composition being the mechanism for inheritance and structural typing in an otherwise strongly typed language. Both of those were available in other languages that strongly identify as oo.
My first cs class was taught in scheme. I think that’s the _right_ way to begin to learn. But very quickly after that oo and imperative ought to be introduced.
I would sum my career up as C -> C++ -> Python/Ruby/Python -> Go -> Go/Rust, and would say my experience of Go (reinforced in Rust) was sharp pushback on class-based OO idioms, especially inheritance.