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		adrianmsmith on Nov 17, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take th... That's true, but while it was difficult back then to write functional code in Java (now solved), it was difficult back then to write class-based object-oriented code in Javascript (now solved).

abritinthebay on Nov 17, 2017 [–]

If you go into JS classes assuming they work at all like Java/C++ classes... you’ll have a bad time.

They’re just sugar around protypical object-oriented code.

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