[gyrovorbis]

"Thankfully" he says.

Now witness as Rust struggles to produce a compelling widgeting environment that isn't Qt or GTk bindings to other languages which support OO constructs. Witness as apparently creating a "Rust-friendly" OO paradigm or framework is an ongoing academic endeavor, because of this...

Believe it or not, for some domains, object-orientation is the right tool for the job... as some problems are just inherently modeled better with such a paradigm, and are able to take advantage of what it has to offer (encapsulation, polymorphism, inheritance).