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MichaelGG on May 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Abstraction without overhead: traits in Rust

Java's interfaces are getting default implementations now, aren't they?

jahewson on May 11, 2015 [–]

Yes, they are in Java 8, though you can't implement an interface for an existing class in Java, so it's not quite a trait.

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