[miralabs]

Crockford talks about the bad features added to ES6, one of them class which he said is most requested by Java developers programming javascript.At the end of the talk he show way how to move out of classes/new in javascript https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSGEjv3Tqo0&feature=youtu.be...

[Demiurge]

Can you give a short gist of why they're bad and why should one move out of classes/new? What is the alternative?

[davej]

From the video:

    function constructor(spec) {
      let {member} = spec,
          {other}  = other_constructor(spec),
          method   = function () {
            // accesses member, other, method, spec
          };

      return Object.freeze({
          method,
          other,
      });
    }

[Demiurge]

That looks pretty interesting and flexible on one hand, on the other, I don't see why it's better than classes. Is it just more explicit?

[zodiakzz]

Doesn't support inheritance.

[miralabs]

its mostly because of 'this' . as per the example above, you can prevent this by doing something like that.. freeze/seal