phoenixmatrix's comments

Yup. The class keyword is a huge step backward, and it was only put it because of a very different world several years ago when all this was put into motion. It is just a wrapper around prototypal inheritance, but hides a lot of the features in favor of making things look like other OOP languages, even though it isn't.

It is also very debatable if classic OOP is even good at all. JS was heading in the right direction, with more functional approaches, factory based object creation, etc... and now it's all back to square one.

Fortunately I work on a product where most devs have functional programming backgrounds, so the argument isn't too hard to make. But I fear for the community in general.

Its the javascript community as a whole that is divided, generally between imperative/OOP and functional devs. Has nothing to do with Node or otherwise.

Even if you like classical inheritance, the Class keyword is poorly implemented for it, from both a normal OOP language's point of view OR from a prototypal inheritance point of view. It's bad at both.

The community is pretty divided and es6 classes are fairly controversial. Don't be too surprised to see a lot of people avoid them. On purpose. And it's not because they aren't familiar with OOP.