Chapter 25: Traits, Rust’s Core Abstraction
Prerequisites
You will understand
- Traits as named capabilities, not interfaces
- Static dispatch via monomorphization
- When to use
impl Traitvsdyn Trait
Reading time
35 min
+ 20 min exercises
You'll need this for Chapter 42
Advanced traits (trait objects, GATs, supertraits) build directly on the capability model you learn here.
Ch 42: Advanced Traits →
Capability Map
Traits as Named Capabilities
Monomorphization