The class keyword was added (as a functional syntax I mean) specifically because people understand class base inheritance but not prototype inheritance. It is l

The class keyword was added (as a functional syntax I mean) specifically because people understand class base inheritance but not prototype inheritance. It is literally just syntactic sugar on what you could do previously, so it’s not “needed” any more than many other basic syntax options. Not sure what you’re specifically talking about wrt to late bind or how you feel it’s relevant to this, so I am curious what you mean. But the reason the class syntax was added to the language was 100% just a programmer familiarity change, nothing else.