Another imprecise analogy would be to see traits as operators.
You decide to define the operator "serde::serialize" for "MyType" but then your are stuck because you can't override or select different operators for "MyType" because only one can exists.
That's a regular yet not super common issue with traits (and this is not exclusive to Rust).
It's quite irritating because you wouldn't expect this from languages with this degree of modularity.
You decide to define the operator "serde::serialize" for "MyType" but then your are stuck because you can't override or select different operators for "MyType" because only one can exists.
That's a regular yet not super common issue with traits (and this is not exclusive to Rust). It's quite irritating because you wouldn't expect this from languages with this degree of modularity.