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I'm saddened JavaScript adopted "classes" rather than improving support for prototypical inheritance. For a dynamic language, prototypical inheritance exemplif
by hgs3 5y ago
I'm saddened JavaScript adopted "classes" rather than improving support for prototypical inheritance. For a dynamic language, prototypical inheritance exemplifies beauty and simplicity. Unfortunately, JavaScript's execution of prototypes was poor and, given the languages popularity and that it is/was most developers first and only exposure to prototypes, it has left the engineering world with a bad impression.
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