A Brief History of Prototypes

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A short technical history traces prototypes from Director (1976) through Object Lisp, Self and LambdaMOO to Lua and JavaScript, arguing JavaScript has no actual classes and relies on prototype delegation. Self pioneers runtime optimizations later used in V8, LambdaMOO lets users edit live objects and still has about 50 people online, Lua becomes a fast embeddable game scripting engine, and JavaScript starts as a 10 days prototype that nonetheless becomes the web’s dominant scripting language.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:51PROTOTYPE-BASED OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING (PROTOTYPE OOP)
3. 2:28JAVASCRIPT IS A PROTOTYPE-BASED LANGUAGE
4. 3:20PROTOTYPES ARE ABOUT INTERACTION ARE ABOUT FLEXIBILITY ARE ABOUT PLAY
5. 15:42LAMBDAMOO (1990) PLAY AS PROGRAMMING PROGRAMMING AS PLAY

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