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Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by eropple on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:06AM (#22694233)
Wha? That's a take.

Here's mine: ES6 classes are wildly smart. They provide the benefits of prototypical inheritance--you can just reach into the thing and do what you want to do!--while making it way easier for many developers to read and parse in short order, while reducing the difficulty spike in moving to JavaScript (or, today, TypeScript).

"Pandering". Right.

I can write old-style object prototypes. It makes my eyes bleed and makes me make more mistakes. So I'm just not gonna do that anymore.

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Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by alharith on Friday March 27, 2020 @12:14AM (#22700399)
It makes your eyes bleed? If you thought mine was a take...

Anyways, let's not act like ES6 classes aren't without their slew of issues, obscure syntax, and most importantly, problems when it comes to transpiling and backwards compatibility:

https://medium.com/@WebReflection/a-case-for-js-classes-with...

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Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by eropple on Friday March 27, 2020 @10:18AM (#22702997)
"Let's" not, but I don't care about much of anything in that article. I haven't written something that targets a browser that isn't ES2015 since...2016.

It's 2020. Things move on.

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Re:Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages by alharith on Monday March 30, 2020 @11:38AM (#22728847)
Great attitude. Let's move on and leave 13% of the global internet population behind.
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