Source Decoded 3: Javascript -- Prototypes, Prototypal Inheritance done right.
Javascript got a lot of things right, and some things wrong. What about prototypes and prototypal inheritance? Well... Javascript managed to get that half right.
Fortunately, more recent versions of Javascript (IE9+) provide a couple of great tools for getting prototypal all right. In this video we discuss what prototypal inheritance looks like, how Javascript missed the mark the first time around, and how to take advantage of this impressively simple, and powerful, design pattern.