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		Karawebnetwork on Aug 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ‘This’ in JavaScript 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.

spinningarrow on Aug 3, 2017 [–]

That was my impression as well, especially since the class-ish syntactic sugar doesn’t improve performance either.

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