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		afavour on April 24, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TypeScript: Branded Types There was plenty of outrage when classes were added to JS. “JS uses prototypal inheritance, not OOP!”

krapp on April 24, 2024 [–]

I'm still a bit cranky about that, but because objects should be good enough for anyone. They aren't even really classes anyway.

Aeolun on April 25, 2024 | [–]

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, for all intents and purposes, it is a duck.

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