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by jt2190 1914 days ago
> we should explore the boundaries of the paradigm by making a popular language that's based on prototypes, or that privileges composition over inheritance, or pulls apart the various pieces of OOP into standalone concepts that can be mixed and matched.

JavaScript? ;-)
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randallsquared 1914 days ago
I can neither confirm nor deny that I had any particular languages in mind... but, yeah, having slightly or wildly different takes on various patterns can help us explore the practical consequences. I would suggest that the history of JS is good evidence that prototypes are harder to use and reason about than classes.
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meheleventyone 1914 days ago
You joke but I think TypeScript's structural typing is really cool and has a lot of neat advantages of nominal typing.
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