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Yeah, either way it is objects. Traits feel so much more flexible though; and more natural a layer over JS object-orientedness. It also makes it a pain that there are some important semantics missing while using classes in JS. Someitmes Java feels much better.

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The real problem is that ES classes map onto a paradigm of prototypal inheritance rather than traditional inheritance (as in Java). The discrepancies between the two cause a leaky abstraction, like how a class still has a prototype chain, for example.

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