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I would rather work in a language/style that draws its inspiration from Scheme than Simula 67. Then you should push for WebAssembly improvements so you can use

I would rather work in a language/style that draws its inspiration from Scheme than Simula 67. Then you should push for WebAssembly improvements so you can use whatever language you want. As long as JavaScript is a de facto requirement for web development it needs to be as approachable as possible to a wide developer audience, and that means looking more like Java than Lisp.

BigJono 7y ago
Or we could've considered it an opportunity to move people away from classical inheritance and towards something that's conceptually much simpler? (which both prototypal inheritance and functional programming are)
- pjmlp 7y ago
  Yet all successful functional programming languages do support doing OOP as well.
- boomlinde 7y ago
  JS is and always was prototype based. The class keyword is as far as I know just syntax sugar that creates a prototype chain and a new-able function that assigns the prototype to self.
  - jwalton 7y ago
    The '#privateVar' syntax means that classes are no longer simply syntax sugar, unfortunately.
    - eropple 7y ago
      Private variables could always be simulated with IIFEs. I'm pretty sure that's actually how TypeScript does it if you compile down low enough.
jcadam 7y ago
> and that means looking more like Java than Lisp. No. (No (No (No (No (No)))))