[gabordemooij]

You're right, there is no need to be defensive. For some reason though I felt like being attacked here. Maybe words like 'piece of shit' (not from you) have something to do with this.

I am not used to participate in technical debates like this. All I know is that the I like the minimalistic way of OOP in JS and that it works for me. All I tried to do is share my experience. I no longer feel the need to prolong this discussion as I am no longer capable of providing arguments. I am left wondering why a perfectly reasonable way of coding JS is dismissed here so aggressively. For me hackernews has been a big dissappointment (first thread/comments here). I had hoped to either learn something new or find support for my method. Instead I have felt attacked for my opinion. As a natural response I try to defend myself; however this rhetoric gets in the way of reason and rational argumentation.

[MatthewPhillips]

I understand how you feel, as you know programmers tend to be overly frank about their opinions on software, and it sucks to be on the receiving end of that. But if you ever want to talk about JavaScript or coding or whatever, my emails in my profile.