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by benaston 4013 days ago
I think the jury is still out on `class`. I can say that `class` is somewhat "dishonest" both the sense that it makes the language more complicated, under a guise of simplification; and in the sense that it lures developers from classical languages into thinking that JavaScript has classes in the same manner, when `class` in JS is just sugar.
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phpnode 4013 days ago
I see this line of thinking a lot and I think it's a mistake. Are classes in other languages consistent with each other? Clearly not, so why is this distinction made here? ES6 classes ARE classes, it's not just sugar, that is what they are.
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TazeTSchnitzel 4012 days ago
No, it's just syntactic sugar. They're not a basic construct of the language. JavaScript has objects and it has prototypes on objects. ES6 classes are sugar over this. Classes in other languages, however, are the basic construct.
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phpnode 4012 days ago
Why is this distinction important when it comes to actually using the language?
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TazeTSchnitzel 4012 days ago
Because when you run into OOP that doesn't use the sugar, you'll have trouble if you'd only learned "class", rather than what it's syntactic sugar for.
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