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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 p

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.