[djacobs]

I'm not yet convinced that it's just syntactic sugar. For example, what (generic) code is `super` syntactic sugar for?

Even if it is just syntactic sugar, that syntactic sugar makes it much more approachable for devs who want to use classical inheritance (not that I'd encourage that).

[secoif]

> what (generic) code is `super` syntactic sugar for?

  super.propertyOnSuper ~= this.__proto__.propertyOnSuper

  super() in constructor ~= ParentConstructor.call(this)

and some tools provide such things like this.super_:

https://github.com/isaacs/inherits/blob/3af5a10c6b51f9e99d9f...

[djacobs]

Thanks for the response. If the choice is between manually specifying that (type of) code for every kind of object (and likely moving to a #create factory method) or using a native syntax for class declaration, I can see why people would choose the latter.