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> But before that there were countless competing models for creating objects or object factories. Java and C# had object factories even though in those languag

> But before that there were countless competing models for creating objects or object factories. Java and C# had object factories even though in those languages classes could not be avoided. People wanted classes because they could not figure how to program without them. > To pretend… Don’t use this or new in your code and suddenly a tremendous amount of your code is exposed as unnecessary superfluous vanity. That isn’t making the language into something else.

mikojan 5y ago
> Java and C# had object factories Object factories were competing models (plural) for creating any object. A total replacement for classes and the like, not an augmentation. Here's one such model: function createCar(spec) { const {speed} = spec; let position = 0; return Object.freeze({ move() { position += speed; }, get position() { return position; } }); } And so you'd find this or any other model or multiple competing models in the very same code base. It sucked. > Don’t use this or new in your code You are going to be mutating the internal state of objects. Using this and new or not.