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Anything beats the hundreds of incompatible classical inheritance models rammed on top of proptypes.

Today, functional has won so completely that devs don’t even notice. Using classes is almost entirely antipattern. Factories with object literals and Claire’s reign supreme. Everyone prefers map, filter, reduce, etc over manual looping. Const and copying as a default immutability is preferred to mutation. Nobody thinks twice about higher order functions everywhere.



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