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Re:Classes Are Making Me Sad by Ghostium on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @04:34PM (#13824035)
Maybe this could help: https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/this%...
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Re:Classes Are Making Me Sad by shp0ngle on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @06:50PM (#13825154)
Yeah, I always understand "how" from books like this, but not "why". Why is javascript like that?

More to the point, what is the reason for prototype-based inheritance, what is its benefit, what more can you do with it than with C++/java, where does it make life easier.

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