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		marcosdumay 63 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When did people favor composition over inheritance... Django documentation explicitly recommended it for a short while. At a point, the Python community created all kinds of mixins on all kinds of random APIs. Then people noticed it was bad, and stopped.

nine_k 62 days ago [–]

Mixins are usually explicitly orthogonal and rarely get subclassed, so diamond-shaped inheritance with mixins seems rare.

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