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"Just like it's better to understand how prototypal inheritance works in JS BEFORE even using a single class declaration. "

About that, does JS class inheritance now work like classes in java for example? Or is it still just syntactic sugar for the prototype inheritance? By your wording, I assume the later?

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Correct. It's still prototype based. Thus making the class keyword actually MORE confusing for people from other languages, IMO.

Well, it's complicated :-)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36419713/are-es6-classes...

Wow. I was hoping, at some point things would improve a bit.

Agreed. I find myself using a pretty small subset of the language which definitely doesn't include the class keyword. Doubt I'll ever find it useful.

Yeah, like many people, I ended up making my own inheritance routines. Then when class came out, I was half rejoicing, half regretting to put up the work. But well, no thanks. I rather keep using my own far from perfect way of things.

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