64. AI Apoptosis

This week, Chris and Soroush review what inheritance in OOP is good for … and the problems it brings with it. Also: an update on the lights in Soroush’s bathroom.

• Chris’s Alexa Aircraft Radar skill
• Apoptosis
• Episode 50: Internet of Things
• Wemo Mini Smart Plug
• Sylvania HomeKit Bulbs
• Philips Tap Switch
• Hue Labs Toggle Behavior
• Why inheritance never made any sense
• Chris: Cocoa’s mutable-subclass pattern is an antipattern
• Chris: Multiple Inheritance vs. Traits or Protocol Extensions
• Ruby Forwardable module (def_delegator and def_delegators)
• Objective-C forwardingTargetForSelector:
• Multiple Inheritance in C++ and the Diamond Problem
• The Ghost of Swift Bugs Future
• Slava Pestov’s Twitter thread