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>You don’t have inheritance [..]

Modern PL features are more or less wrappers around comparatively complex C code. Object inheritance is actually one that isn't too difficult or complex to implement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM&t=4275s

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> Modern PL features are more or less wrappers around comparatively complex C code. Object inheritance is actually one that isn't too difficult or complex to implement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=443UNeGrFoM&t=4275s

True, and if you implement it as a preprocessor, that's exactly how C++ started in 1979 (Stroustrup's "C with classes" Cfront pre-processor: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/history).

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