[horsawlarway]

> This is the second time I've seen in this thread that people lump Crockford in with Java enterprise folks, but Crockford routinely says `class` was the worst addition to JS.

Because Crockford was one of the people advocating for a particular style of initialization of objects that mirrored classes, but was not directly a class before classes existed in JS. (see: https://crockford.com/javascript/inheritance.html)

It is utterly enterprise and classlike in nature though, and not my cup of tea. Mainly - I just wanted enterprise folks to stop trying to re-invent classes in the language, and the class keyword stopped that behavior.

Big net win for the language in my opinion - even though I personally still don't use classes all that often.

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His modern take is fairly reasonable, though.

[JBits]

His modern take, advocating prototypes, has been around since 2006 (https://crockford.com/javascript/prototypal.html).

[horsawlarway]

I know - I just keep getting older... hard to believe that was nearly 20 years back now, and not 20 months.