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chriswarbo on Jan 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is JavaScript getting worse?

Well, even if you prefer classes, you've now got to reason about prototypes and classes, and possible mixtures of both.

BonsaiDen on Jan 12, 2015 [–]

ES6 classes are nothing more than syntactic sugar for the existing prototypical inheritance model.

chriswarbo on Jan 12, 2015 | [–]

Multiple equivalent syntaxes (syntaces?) still adds a cognitive load.

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