I think that it was beautiful 10 years ago, too, if you mainly used a subset of it, relying heavily on closures and avoiding constructors and "this" as much as

I think that it was beautiful 10 years ago, too, if you mainly used a subset of it, relying heavily on closures and avoiding constructors and "this" as much as possible. I think that prototypal inheritance is elegant but in any case, there was never much reason to use any inheritance syntax to begin with other than perhaps in rare cases where one wanted to really maximize performance. As for static typing, while it has its uses, the idea that it makes things more beautiful is subjective. Arrow functions really are a great bit of syntactic sugar. I know that they are more than that, but since I avoid "this" anyway, for me they may as well just be syntactic sugar. As for the "class" keyword, I find it to be utterly pointless but of course, tastes vary.