Inheritance

C# is a statically compiled language that supports a classical inheritance model. By statically compiled, I mean the structure of your objects can’t change unless you stop your running program, alter the source code for the class, recompile, and rerun. You can contrast C#’s static nature with a language designed to be dynamic: JavaScript.

JavaScript breaks from a great many conventions, not the least of which is that it uses prototypes for inheritance instead of classes. For that matter, it doesn’t support encapsulation. It is based heavily on the idea of Lambda functions, which was also novel when JavaScript was invented. JavaScript uses lexical scope instead of the more conventional block scope we find in C#. In short, JavaScript is really weird when compared with C# if C# is the only language you know.

Now that we’ve established there’s more than one way to do inheritance, let’s switch back over to how it works in C#.

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