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Comment by secoif | Hacker News Reader

> what (generic) code is `super` syntactic sugar for?

  super.propertyOnSuper ~= this.__proto__.propertyOnSuper

  super() in constructor ~= ParentConstructor.call(this)

and some tools provide such things like this.super_:

https://github.com/isaacs/inherits/blob/3af5a10c6b51f9e99d9f...

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Thanks for the response. If the choice is between manually specifying that (type of) code for every kind of object (and likely moving to a #create factory method) or using a native syntax for class declaration, I can see why people would choose the latter.

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