A lot of people like having a prototype based language. From an academic point of view, it makes the language "beautiful". From a real world application, it giv

A lot of people like having a prototype based language. From an academic point of view, it makes the language "beautiful". From a real world application, it gives you the flexibility to decide how you want to organize your code (do you want inheritance, mixins, etc.). The pros vs cons of prototype based languages isn't clear cut. It's possible to end up with an ugly combination of things that don't work well together.