Ask HN: Why is there a tendency in JavaScript to omit using classes?

Re:Ask HN: Why is there a tendency in JavaScript to omit usi... by sethc2 on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:37PM (#26448177)

I find classes in JavaScript just more tedious, and they’re really just syntactical sugar on top of a function anyways. Working in react I’m always making things immutable, and I generally use typescript, and classes to me are just more painful to write then a function whose parameters act effectively as constructor arguments and the return statement which is the classes public API.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is there a tendency in JavaScript to omit usi... by sethc2 on Saturday March 13, 2021 @12:40PM (#26448207)

I should say though, I will use classes if I’m trying to do OOP, and using a lot of inheritance. I find it easier for me to make “clean” in those cases, then doing the equivalent with functions, but that might just be old habits from when I only OOP

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