Prototypal and Nonprototypal inheritance in Javascript (differences)

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Time after time in different sources I see mentioning about Prototypal inheritance and Nonprototypal inheritance, but I dont understand what does it means. As I know JS have only Prototypal inheritance so what is another one?

What differences and what is the main idea?

You're true, there is no other inheritance than prototypal in JS. — user1046334
– user1046334, Commented Jul 30, 2014 at 10:36
Could you provide a link to any source that talk about "nonprototypal" inheritance in JavaScript? — apsillers
– apsillers, Commented Jul 28, 2015 at 11:54
The 'other' or 'nonprototypal' kind of inheritance is called 'classical' i.e. based on classes. It is not supported in JS (until ES2015 standard), but there are many ways to emulate it. — Mchl
– Mchl, Commented Jul 28, 2015 at 11:59

onerror · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-28 11:52:07Z

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Sorry, but I think there's no such thing as non-prototypal inheritance. The model of inheritance used in JS is prototypal inheritance, which is uses chains of prototypes.

answered Jul 28, 2015 at 11:52

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