[yamtaddle]

> I wish they did the same with JS-with-classes, just write a new language that compiles to JS instead of bolt classes onto the JS standard.

I think the classes were a good thing. Better would have been to change the OO model entirely, but if you're going to have one and can't change it, nice to at least have some sugar to make it usable. IDK if it's better elsewhere, but prototypal OO was pretty clearly a miss-step for Javascript, and sugar to make the OO system usable and less-obtuse (while making it easier to ignore the parts that should basically never be used, which parts amount to all the distinctive things about prototypal OO) is a decent move.