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I agree, it is difficult. I come from a C# background. Very OOP. And at some point, I also wanted JavaScript to be like C#. Classes, inheritance, overrides, overloads, blah blah.
Heck, a few years ago I wrote WorkflowJS which was a recreation of Windows Workflow Foundation 4 in JavaScript. LOL
haha, true. As a polyglot I can confirm this approach is rather difficult to stick to.
I agree, it is difficult. I come from a C# background. Very OOP. And at some point, I also wanted JavaScript to be like C#. Classes, inheritance, overrides, overloads, blah blah.
Heck, a few years ago I wrote WorkflowJS which was a recreation of Windows Workflow Foundation 4 in JavaScript. LOL
But of course this came with problems most of which I outlined in How I rediscovered my love for JavaScript after throwing 90% of it in the trash.
Life became simpler after understanding FP. There's just so much unnecessary complexity that comes with OOP.