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

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 looki…

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 prototyp…

I don't understand the question.

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…