• toastal@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Proving that adding the class keyword to the ECMAScript spec was a mistake that leads folks down a path they should not travel 🙃

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      5 months ago

      I completely agree. I taught JS/TS for 5yrs and I always emphasised that the ‘class’ keyword was just syntactic sugar for what was already available in prototype inheritance of JS.