"new", I believe, is actually an ancient relic of the prototypal class system. I believe it is quite the opposite. It was a failed attempt to make the prototyp

"new", I believe, is actually an ancient relic of the prototypal class system. I believe it is quite the opposite. It was a failed attempt to make the prototype-based object system look like class-based one. I vaguely remember reading this opinion in Crockford's "Javascript:The Good Parts" book.