If we want to be pedantic, prototypal inheritance is a kind of OOP[1]. What you're talking about is referred to as "classical OOP" (OOP using classes). [1]: ht

If we want to be pedantic, prototypal inheritance is a kind of OOP[1]. What you're talking about is referred to as "classical OOP" (OOP using classes). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming