Well, I used to bash C++ and OOP programming till not a long time ago, but I am slowly reconsidering my ideas. I am now learning Rust, and for this purpose I a

Well, I used to bash C++ and OOP programming till not a long time ago, but I am slowly reconsidering my ideas. I am now learning Rust, and for this purpose I am trying to implement a small TUI (Text User Interface) framework. In order to get some ideas, I dug in my library and found the Turbo Vision User's Manual that was bundled with Borland Pascal 7.0 [1]. Reading it after so many years made me wonder how could they create such a complex and well-thought framework that was truly usable for your own stuff, given the technology and knowledge available 30 years ago. The text often underlines that a lot of features were possible thanks to the OOP constructs implemented in Turbo Pascal, and I believe them. I think that OOP importance might have faded today, but its historical significance for the development of GUIs and TUIs should not be underestimated. P.S. I am trying to implement my library in Rust, which is not an OOP language, and so far have found no blocking point: traits and containers are more than adequate replacements for the kind of polymorphism and inheritance used in libraries like Turbo Vision. But my point still stands: once we learned that polymorphism and inheritance were useful to solve some specific problems, we have derived better ways to achieve the same purpose. [1] https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandTurrogrammingGuide1992_25707423 https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_borlandTurrogrammingGu...