I thought it was unfortunate that prototypes were characterized as an inadequate approximation of classes, when in fact prototypes are a wholly legitimate, powe

I thought it was unfortunate that prototypes were characterized as an inadequate approximation of classes, when in fact prototypes are a wholly legitimate, powerful, and certainly interesting way to approach object-oriented programming (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming). 20+ years of confused programmers suggests that maybe it wasn't the right way to go for a language that is frequently used by beginners, but still that wasn't the fault of prototype based programming itself. The new class system is syntactic sugar leveraging the power of prototypes. This was always possible, and nothing stopped you from implementing a class-like system in JavaScript a long time ago. More, very readable, info here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Details_of_the_Object_Model https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guid...