I’m mostly the opposite: classes in JavaScript feel like a kludge invented to pretend JavaScript’s version of OOP is what people were familiar with in languages

I’m mostly the opposite: classes in JavaScript feel like a kludge invented to pretend JavaScript’s version of OOP is what people were familiar with in languages like Python, Java and C++. If I’m going to write OOP JS, I generally prefer to use object literals and Object.create. However, I’ve mostly switched to the “Unix philosophy” style that libraries like Ramda promote: lots of sharp tools that are composed to build your programs.