[orf]

It kinda is a powerful language feature But with great power comes great responsibility, and that doesn’t mean it was a good idea in hindsight.

[_old_dude_]

Yes, it's functions vs methods. You can make this explicit like in Python, you can make it implicit but have two kinds of methods, instance methods and static methods like in C++/C#/Java.

And you have JavaScript were all functions have an implicit this ...