The past day or two I’ve been exploring Python. Although I’ve enjoyed tinkering with the language, I’ve never done any serious development with it. As I explored it more, I was surprised to find that Python’s approach to object-oriented programming provides a great foundation for understanding JavaScript’s objects and prototype chains. The two languages are conceptually similar, but Python provides object-orientation in a much cleaner, straightforward way.*
In my opinion, someone should write a tutorial that first introduces the concepts of object-oriented Python, then illustrates how the same concepts apply to JavaScript.
* To defend myself against JavaScript purists, the point is to better understand JavaScript as a language. It’s not that I’m trying to coerce JavaScript into the mold of another language.
