How to get the benefits of Rust Traits for runtime polymorphism in C++

The traditional mechanism of untime polymorphism, in C++, is inheritance and virtual overrides, however, this mechanism requires strong commitment, including the intrusive nature of inheritance, which might be inadequate in many situations, and actually, Rust Traits are a very useful way to approach the needs of runtime polymorphism for many scenarios. Let's learn that and see if we can benefit from it natively in C++.

C++ is such an expressive language that we can incorporate a central feature of another language, Rust Traits, with just about optimal performance that may be even better than that of the normal mechanism in C++ and its native expression in Rust.

In this presentation we will start with C++ and a type erasure library to show step by step how we can transform it into the functional equivalent of Rust Traits