Traits

Rust lets you abstract over types with traits. They're similar to interfaces:

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Speaker Notes

This slide and its sub-slides should take about 15 minutes.
  • A trait defines a number of methods that types must have in order to implement the trait.

  • In the "Generics" segment, next, we will see how to build functionality that is generic over all types implementing a trait.