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@vjeux @brendaneich My remark wasn't about React specifically, just about the class syntax. Imo it's unneeded sugar.

@vjeux @brendaneich We can't just keep adding stuff to the language. Good design is about taking things away, and we're not doing that.

@vjeux @brendaneich Everything classes do can be achieved with prototypes. Easily. Classes are just added for the sake of familiarity.

@yoshuawuyts @BrendanEich at fb we used to write classes the pure js way by creating a fn and them mutating the prototype directly

@Vjeux @BrendanEich Similar to this? Was curious why you chose to not do that, could you enlighten me? -- https://gist.github.com/yoshuawuyts/1df67cf3feb5816728e8 …

@yoshuawuyts @BrendanEich using prototype you trade the memory cost for an additional lookup which is likely going to be cached

@Vjeux @BrendanEich I tend to stay away from complex inheritance patterns, so I can't really comment on the benefits of classes vs prototype

@yoshuawuyts @BrendanEich using prototype you add an additional lookup of __proto__ but you define those methods only once per class