Classical

• immutable
• may or may not support multiple inheritance
• verbose and complicated

Prototype

• flexible
• multiple inheritance
• only have objects and you just extend them

Classical inheritance

• Provides a blueprint, the whole kitchensink, for your child instances to inherit and/or extend
• two types of abstraction: classes and objects
• tight coupling of parent/child
• subclass, hierarchical clas, taxonomies

Prototypical inheritance

• the abstraction is object and only objects
• Provides a way to inherit only the properties you need from the prototypes of multiple objects, aka, multiple inheritance
• use compositions and concatenation to share object properties and methods freely
• use delegation to loop up properties and methods on instance prototypes

const color = { color: 'red' };
const brand = { brand: 'ford' };

const Car = (options) => {
    return Object.assign({}, color, brand, options);
}

const Ford = Car({
    color: 'silver',
    brand: 'ford',
})

# References

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2800964/benefits-of-prototypal-inheritance-over-classical http://aaditmshah.github.io/why-prototypal-inheritance-matters/ https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2800964/benefits-of-prototypal-inheritance-over-classical