As someone who is regularly introducing javascript to other programmers. I got the say that since ES6, prototypes are no longer a core concept that is practically needed to get you started and this does wonders to the learning curve. Really people just get into the language and code base *a lot* faster, and no, they don't encounter side-effects for not knowing prototypes. That's because our code is mostly sane and prototypes are used scarcely (which should be the case for most projects).
Don't get me wrong, it will be a good thing that programmers *eventually* understand prototypes, but it really shouldn't be a core concept blocking use of the simple inheritance paradigm.
amitport 2674 days ago. link -1 point ▲ ▼