Embedding promotes methods, it does not give you inheritance. Here is where the method-set rules and accidental interfaces bite Go developers.
Struct embedding in Go promotes methods but is not inheritance; promoted methods see only their receiver, and accidentally satisfy unintended interfaces. For CTOs: embedding is a public API contract—silently exporting all embedded methods creates production risk.
Book: The Complete Guide to Go Programming
Also by me: Thinking in Go (2-book series) — Complete Guide to Go Programming + Hexagonal Architecture in Go
My project: Hermes IDE | GitHub — an IDE for developers who ship with Claude Code and other AI coding tools
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