Inheritance was oversold, but it can help remove a lot of boilerplate code. Early windows notoriously had hundreds of lines of code for a hello world program.

Inheritance was oversold, but it can help remove a lot of boilerplate code. Early windows notoriously had hundreds of lines of code for a hello world program. Setting your own defaults and getting on with your day is great for dealing with a less refined API etc. Complex inheritance trees can make sense in niche application for similar reasons.