Inheritance has its uses, but is easily overused. In a sense, it’s like global variables. About every complex program [1] has a few of them, so languages have

Inheritance has its uses, but is easily overused. In a sense, it’s like global variables. About every complex program [1] has a few of them, so languages have to support them, but you shouldn’t have too many of them, and people tend to say “don’t use globals”. [1] some languages such as classical Java made it technically impossible to create them, but you can effectively create one with class Foo { public static int bar; } If you’re opposed to that, you’ll end up with making that field non-static and introducing a singleton instance of “Foo”, again effectively creating a global. In some Java circles, programmers will also wrap access to that field in getters and setters, and then use annotations to generate those methods, but that doesn’t make such fields non-global.