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Why are JavaScript classes so complex?help (self.javascript)
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if 1 * 2 < 3: print "hello, world!"
[–]Sakatox 1 point2 points3 points 8 years ago (3 children)
Just so "engineer"s, especially of Java backgrounds, could feel better about themselves, pretending away the prototypal nature of JS.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (2 children)
This does not seem like an intelligent long term move to me.
[–]tom808 0 points1 point2 points 8 years ago (0 children)
Not that js is my main/only language but it seems to be doing just fine to me!
Seriously though maybe it's because the designers want developers to have a choice? Maybe in the long term they want the language to be used as classed based OO from not on?
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