A diagram of how objects and their prototypes relate to each other in JavaScript. The diagram is convoluted and a series of bold question marks sit in the corner.

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   mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Dec-2024 08:23:50 JST mcc

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   @helge @lambdageek @joe unfortunately, I don't feel JavaScript is very good at being a prototype based language. I once wrote a prototype based language (Emily 1+2) and found it a very powerful idiom in that context— it made me want to try Self. But I've never successfully used prototypes in JavaScript for anything, except that one time I laboriously recreated a class system on top of it and used the classes. The ergonomics of js prototypes are just… weird. You see why ES6 moved away from them.