| # Object-Oriented Programming Features of Rust |
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| Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a way of modeling programs. Objects as a |
| programmatic concept were introduced in the programming language Simula in the |
| 1960s. Those objects influenced Alan Kay’s programming architecture in which |
| objects pass messages to each other. To describe this architecture, he coined |
| the term _object-oriented programming_ in 1967. Many competing definitions |
| describe what OOP is, and by some of these definitions Rust is object-oriented, |
| but by others it is not. In this chapter, we’ll explore certain characteristics |
| that are commonly considered object-oriented and how those characteristics |
| translate to idiomatic Rust. We’ll then show you how to implement an |
| object-oriented design pattern in Rust and discuss the trade-offs of doing so |
| versus implementing a solution using some of Rust’s strengths instead. |
