The current object model is theoretically more powerful than class-based objects, but no one has found a way to implement it very efficiently yet. Thus, for per

The current object model is theoretically more powerful than class-based objects, but no one has found a way to implement it very efficiently yet. Thus, for performance, it would be nice to have a more static alternative. (Though I suppose they could have come up with a static prototypical system, rather than classes. Classes can be pretty nice though, when they are not Java/C++/C# classes.)