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zdragnar on April 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: React v15.5.0

Classes and inheritance are features of type systems, not OOP. Plenty of functional programming JS libraries use classes for testing types (for example, the Either monads' Left and Right).

paulddraper on April 9, 2017 [–]

Classes and class inheritance are features of class-based systems, yes.

Prototypes and prototype inheritance are features of prototype based systems.

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