No, inheritance simply doesn't exist in Go.

In this example, the Dog struct embeds the Animal struct. By doing so, the Dog struct inherits the properties and methods of the Animal struct. This is achieved through composition rather than traditional inheritance.
Composition over Inheritance in Go
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David Lee
Teiva Harsanyi
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Jun 2, 2023
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No, inheritance simply doesn't exist in Go. Embedding `Animal` means promoting the fields and behaviors but conceptually, it remains composition, not inheritance.
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