Have you actually tried it? Seems like the people who actually have found it a little more complicated than that (see http://discuss.atom.io/t/coffeescript---e

Have you actually tried it? Seems like the people who actually have found it a little more complicated than that (see http://discuss.atom.io/t/coffeescript---extends-vs-util-inherits-inheritance-in-js/2536 http://discuss.atom.io/t/coffeescript---extends-vs-util-inhe...). To quote the post: The difference is important. CS copies functions from parent to child on top of setting the prototype while the std library just does the latter. Inheriting from require("atom").View breaks without doing this manually (which isn't obvious at all). If this is not being done for performance, it should be documented; otherwise, those methods should be moved to the prototype.