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When should you use protocol classes vs abstract base classes? Here's an example where I use both, talk about the trade-offs, and give you a suggestion of when to use each of them.
The code I worked on in this video is available here: https://github.com/ArjanCodes/2021-protocol-vs-abc.
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🔖 Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:01 Explaining the example
5:56 About abstract base classes
8:47 Protocols, nominal typing and structural typing
10:41 Using protocols
15:34 Splitting the Device class
20:05 When to use protocols vs abstract base classes
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