Contrast that, I've seen numerous Java codebases, young and old, and inheritance is very much one of the core ways that people program. I strongly suspect that

Contrast that, I've seen numerous Java codebases, young and old, and inheritance is very much one of the core ways that people program. I strongly suspect that in a few cases some Java devs using net new systems and avoiding common frameworks will perhaps be able to avoid lots of inheritance but I find it insane to say that that's common or even easy.