Languages like C++, Java, C#, Objective-C, Python and Ruby make inheritance dead simple to use. There's one main way of doing it, it's very natural, and so it c

Languages like C++, Java, C#, Objective-C, Python and Ruby make inheritance dead simple to use. There's one main way of doing it, it's very natural, and so it can often be used excessively. JavaScript makes inheritance a hassle. There are numerous ways of faking it, and they aren't always compatible with one another. I don't think we're seeing inheritance "shunned" in those so-called "classical OO" languages. Given more experience with the potential pitfalls of overuse of inheritance, I do think we're seeing it used less extensively than it once was, but it's still a useful technique. On the other hand, we do see JavaScript developers putting a lot of time and effort into trying to add functionality that is inherently useful, but that isn't offered well by default. It's the opposite of the problem that those other languages suffered from. They make it too easy by default; JavaScript makes it too difficult.