Axel Rauschmayer: JavaScript inheritance: beyond the basics

Slides: http://dl.2ality.com/2012/10/jsconf.pdf After giving a brief overview of JavaScript inheritance basics, this talk delves into advanced topics and answers questions such as the following ones: What is the difference between constructor inheritance and instance inheritance? What is the property `constructor` about? How does the `instanceof` operator really work? How does one reference a super-property in JavaScript? What is the `__proto__` property? Does it have a future? Will JavaScript ever have classes? How would they work? How do I implement a type via an object instead of via a constructor function? For reuse of this video under a more permissive license please get in touch with us. The speakers retain the copyright for their performances.