> There literally were no users when the object system was created. True, but it's odd that you say that as if it is disagreement with what you quoted. > Java

> There literally were no users when the object system was created. True, but it's odd that you say that as if it is disagreement with what you quoted. > Javascript’s « prototypal » model is not in any way clean, What's not clean about it? > and all ES6 does is add useful and convenient syntactic shortcuts. ES6 added shortcuts that are only useful and convenient if you didn't bother to learn the prototypical inheritance way of doing things, and wanted to do the things in the Java class-based style. > The changes to the underlying model are improvements (eg official read/write access to the one lonely parent slot, ability to create objects without a parent, …) Sure, agreed I guess.