colbyAFTrustedK

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   by colbyAFTrustedK 10y ago

   That has more to do with a language opting out of having fixed types than it does with class-based versus prototype-based inheritance.
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   by colbyAFTrustedK 10y ago

   It's also been available under Apache 2.0 this whole time, which means you get a patent grant that's less problematic than the one Microsoft is using for .NET Core. So anyone looking to work on a .NET-ish runtime can do so withou
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   by colbyAFTrustedK 10y ago

   Is there a meaningful ? I.e., what does classical inheritance get you that prototypes-under-the-hood don't? For a programmer using classes, that ES's are implemented using prototypes should be as important has how the JVM works.
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   by colbyAFTrustedK 10y ago

   I don't understand the question.
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   by colbyAFTrustedK 10y ago

   Microsoft will need to revise their patent pledge first. If you look at the way it's currently written, it's almost as if it was specifically meant to preserve their option to pull an Oracle v Google against a vendor who decides