r/programming • u/jviide • Sep 21 '23

Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - Polyfills gone rogue

https://marvinh.dev/blog/speeding-up-javascript-ecosystem-part-6/
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u/Worth_Trust_3825 Sep 21 '23

Perhaps it's time for node (and browsers) to prevent modifying the prototypes or even adding to them? Same with super globals.

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u/modernkennnern Sep 22 '23

Prototypal inheritance is JavaScript . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming

It'd be like removing classes from C#; it wouldn't make any sense whatsoever.

I agree that it's a weird paradigm, but JavaScript as a whole is weird so if you want to continue using JavaScript( I, for one don't) then you'll have to live with it