# Is Rust an Object-Oriented Programming Language?

Object-Oriented Programming is a way of modeling programs that originated with Simula in the 1960s and became popular with C++ in the 1990s. There are many competing definitions for what OOP is: under some definitions, Rust is object-oriented; under other definitions, Rust is not. In this chapter, we’ll explore some characteristics that are commonly considered to be object-oriented and how those characteristics translate to idiomatic Rust.