[XCabbage]

Why? Old-school pre-ES6 explicit prototype wrangling was confusing, but what's wrong with using inheritance if you're writing in TypeScript (or, for that matter, a JavaScript version with classes)?

[perrohunter]

Too much abstraction can be bad as well, many times I’ve written a nice class diagram to discover no one really needed to reuse certain functionality, a function would have sufficed :P

[seattle_spring]

This article captures a few good reasons as to why composition is much preferred over inheritance:

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/a-simple-challenge-to-cl...