Flexible Design with the Decorator Pattern in Rust: A Deep Dive | Advanced Rust Part 8

#rustlang #softwarearchitecture #softwaredevelopment This video is part of a playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFdNoRgzggbr7tkQsO4VrF1UGy0ji9sZl Decorators are an amazingly elegant way of introducing flexibility to your code without changing existing functionality. In this video, we will see a prime situation in which attack moves for a game can be layered beautifully with the decorator pattern, all while increasing modularity, readability and testability. 00:00 Intro 00:50 Introductory example 02:43 Naive attack extension 04:05 Problems of the naive extension 06:05 Decorator pattern 10:13 Applying decorators to our example code 12:19 Static vs dynamic dispatch 14:13 Visitor vs decorator pattern 15:00 When to use decorators 15:35 Typical use cases Find this code on GitHub: https://github.com/Thodin/rust-decorators