• aaaaaaaaargh@feddit.org
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    9 hours ago

    True but due to the framework in use it’s more or less applicable and I can’t think of a single commonly used backend stack that’s relying on composition whereas I know a bunch of frontend stacks. I guess composition is handy for widget trees so that’s why you see it more often in frontend apps.

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      4 hours ago

      If you’ve used Dependency Injection before, you’ve used the principle of composition over inheritance. So, if you’ve ever used .Net (C#), Spring Boot (Java) or Laravel (PHP), you’ve likely used it. Modern C++ also has the DI pattern.

      Rust and Go force you to use composition and don’t support inheritance at all, so if you’ve used either of those languages, you’ve followed the practice, though Go doesn’t support DI out of the box. Functional languages like Haskell also use composition over inheritance.