JavaScript Classes are not “just syntactic sugar”

Andrea Giammarchi:

After reading yet another blog post about JS classes being “just sugar for prototypal inheritance”, I’ve decided to write this post to help clarifying, one more time, why this statement is misleading; a post that hopefully explains what’s the difference and why it matters to understand it.

I also used to say this — echo’ing statements by others — but will refrain from doing so from now on 😅

JS Classes are not “just syntactic sugar” →

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Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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