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The difference in performance is negligible for all but the most demanding applications. In which case I would still use factory functions, but just be more careful.

Fair points. I do use classes exposed by libraries. I don't like it but it beats the alternative. I really like the flexibility of factory functions, that is the main point of the …

closures can encapsulate state and methods classes are syntactic sugar emulating classes is, imo, exactly the problem using factory functions which create and return an object, wit…

Does it compile something like this into a c++ class? makeThing(options, usethistoo) { let foo = options.foo; let thistoo = usethistoo; return { functions... } }

:) I started with 6800 machine language. Then c, smalltalk, scheme and etc. Rather than spend a lot of time and botch a comparison between classes and factory functions I'll link y…

I wonder why it seems natural to you? I'm guessing JS wasn't your first language and you didn't learn the power of composition instead of classes.

Sure, but imo unless one is creating very many objects each with their own set of functions it's not really a significant issue. Sometimes programmers spend way too much time optim…

I know, right? Fortunately we can still aren't forced to use all the 'enhancements'.

I don't understand the need for the ever-growing list of "enhancements" to JS. Take Class for example. Class is entirely unnecessary and, essentially, tries to turn JS into a class…

The web became trashed over a decade ago.

The web became trashed over a decade ago.

Because they chose it as a career and not because they love it?

Hmmm, odd. I was under the impression they used cosine similarity based on page content. Once upon a time, based on that 'memory', I created a system to bin domain names into categ…

Isn't that Google's original algorithm?

Don't use it, don't care.

I knew a woman who in 1970 was pulled over by the police in Altadena CA. They were particularly aggressive when it came to "hippies" and so she swallowed her entire cargo of LSD, w…

is the code on github? if not i'm not going to touch it :)

strange that a constitutional amendment was required to ban alcohol, but none was required for other drugs

Martial artists train to 'fight' within a constraining set of rules. In a real fight there are no rules.

Most martial arts are worthless in a real street fight.

I would be very unhappy with a suggestion to replace javascript. I like that I can mix functional, object-oriented, and procedural type code where each seems to be the best fit. If…

I've only briefly looked at wasm and haven't used it at all so I can't recommend anything.

I'm quite happy with javascript as it is but I understand you might prefer other languages. I haven't had occasion to use wasm but it seems that it provides the ability to run most…

In the early 90s I was working in downtown Seattle. The manager of the project I was on was married to a product manager at Microsoft. One morning he showed up with a beta copy of …

This might be a previously unknown bit of NeXT and Windows history. While Windows 3 was in development I was in the next building working on os/2. (not bragging ) I spent a lot of …