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by TazeTSchnitzel 4013 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 4013 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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