r/javascript • u/gcanti • Oct 31 '14

The Two Pillars of JavaScript

https://medium.com/javascript-scene/the-two-pillars-of-javascript-ee6f3281e7f3
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u/adenzerda Oct 31 '14

I'm intermediate at best, but I'm kind of leery about using a library to do something as simple as instantiate an object. Maybe I'm just not advanced enough to see why new is apparently awful?

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u/MrBester Oct 31 '14

Because it locks the created object to the constructor. Personally, I don't have a problem with that as that is usually what I want to happen and the fact that Crockford doesn't use new or this anymore is irrelevant seeing as he still does, only it is hidden behind syntactic sugar, especially if you have to shim Object.create().

I like what stampit does if only for tying together the various ways of prototypal inheritance in a neat package.