Is prototypal inheritance good or bad?

[sapegin]

The best parts of Javascript include…

The worst parts include…

Javascript has a class free object makeup, relying instead on objects inheriting properties directly from other objects - this is prototypal inheritance.

Is prototypal inheritance good or bad? And what is object makeup?

[nelsonic]

@sapegin we typically avoid prototypal inheritance in JS code wherever possible
because it can result in unpredictable behaviour.
We prefer to write purely functional code to eliminate "side effects".

[sapegin]

Who are we? ;-)

[nelsonic]

We are the people who write JS code at @iteles software company @dwyl 😉
where messing with Prototypes is a "code smell". 💩
If a feature can be built/shipped without complex code, why over-complicate it? 🤔