If you take out all the “script” legacy (type coercion which was common for scripting languages when JS came out, the initial lack of a module system which led

If you take out all the “script” legacy (type coercion which was common for scripting languages when JS came out, the initial lack of a module system which led to all kinds of hacks, the scope of var declaration, etc), JavaScript and its prototype based approach is really good. In fact I wish that constructor functions, and the class keyword never existed. You can do the same with Object.create and a function closure, isn’t more verbose and it fits better with the mixed functional/oop approach of the language.