Over the years, I’ve used the template pattern across multiple OO languages with varying degrees of success. It was one of the first patterns I learned in the primordial hours of my software engineering career, and for some reason, it just feels like the natural way to tackle many real-world code-sharing problems. Yet, even before I jumped on board with the composition over inheritance camp, I couldn’t help but notice how using this particular inheritance technique spawns all sorts of design and maintenance headaches as the codebase starts to grow.
The link is to a person’s Mastodon post advertising their own blog post. Here’s a direct link to that blog post: https://rednafi.com/python/escape_template_pattern/
My post’s link is to the original blog URL that you point to, I just mentioned the author’s Mastodon post where I
ranfirst saw a reference to the blog post.