I don't know - I love PHP classes but I'd love to see PHP with prototype-style inheritance (if PHP had classes for strings, etc. in respect to basic variable ty

I don't know - I love PHP classes but I'd love to see PHP with prototype-style inheritance (if PHP had classes for strings, etc. in respect to basic variable types). I think the "everything is an object" route is great and coupling that with prototypes exemplifies that decision's greatness. However, I really do think that JavaScript needs all of the great things ECMA 5 displays first and foremost (such as strict mode, getters/setters/enumerable/configurable/writable for property descriptors). John Resig does an excellent job of summing up ECMA 5 pragmatically (it truly must be great to work on JavaScript stuff as a day job): http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-objects-and-properties/ http://ejohn.org/blog/ecmascript-5-objects-and-properties/