Ah, that explains it. I didn't know about that, but my first thought was, "Why the hell is every single thing wrapped in a class?" That'd be considered non-idio

Ah, that explains it. I didn't know about that, but my first thought was, "Why the hell is every single thing wrapped in a class?" That'd be considered non-idiomatic in JS/Perl/Python/Ruby, I think. Maybe not Ruby; Rubyists like their classes.