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		cormacrelf on Sept 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Rust is not a mature programming language On reflection I think they were referring to both traits and trait objects instead (“Call tables”). I don’t know what more you can ask for than the Rust Book’s entry on trait objects. Not sure how you get “immature language” from this page: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch17-02-trait-objects.html

steveklabnik on Sept 19, 2020 [–]

Trait objects are kind of a pain and there are some improvements that could be made there.

Here's a random example: if you want a trait object with more than one trait, that only works today if one of the two is an auto trait: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...

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