What’s Wrong with Classes in JavaScript?

I’m all for syntactic sugar, but we’re still missing a few things.

It’s not that there is something wrong with JavaScript’s classes, but if you’ve been working with the language for a while, especially if you’ve worked with ES5 before, you’ve probably seen the evolution from Prototypal inheritance into the current class model.

Why though? What was wrong with the prototype chain?

The answer to that question, in my humble opinion, is: nothing. But the community spent years forcing the concept of classes into different constructs and libraries, so the ECMA Technical Committee decided to add it anyway.

The problem with that, you ask? Is that all they really did, was to add some makeup on top of the prototypal inheritance we already had and decided to call it “classes”, which in turn, gives developers the idea that they’re dealing with an Object-Oriented language when they’re really not.

Classes are nothing more than syntactic sugar

JavaScript does not have full OOP support, it never did, and that is because it’s never needed it.

At a surface level, the current version of classes shows an OOP paradigm, because:

• We can create our basic class definition, grouping state and behavior together with a very classic syntax.
• We can inherit from one class to the other.
• We can define the visibility of our properties and methods, between public and private (although private fields are still an experimental feature).
• We can define getters and setters for our properties.
• We can override methods during class inheritance.
• We can, of course, instantiate our classes.

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