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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Proving that adding the class keyword to the ECMAScript spec was a mistake that leads folks down a path they should not travel ๐Ÿ™ƒ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 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.