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Re:‘This’ in JavaScript by Raphmedia on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:37AM (#14919411)
Was there ever any issues with prototype-based inheritance? I've always assumed that they added classes simply because of stubborn classical-based programmers who couldn't bother to learn JavaScript correctly.
Re:‘This’ in JavaScript by spinningarrow on Thursday August 03, 2017 @10:50AM (#14920046)
That was my impression as well, especially since the class-ish syntactic sugar doesn’t improve performance either.