Carlos Kazuo

…set of language bindings: JavaScript’s. You might be thinking that WebAssembly is an exception, but one of the design goals of WebAssembly is to share JavaScript’s language bindings using a compatible Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). In fact, the first demonstrations compiled WebAssembly to a subset of JavaScript known as ASM.js.

What we won’t do is say that functional programming is better than object-oriented programming, or that you must choose one over the other. OOP vs FP is a false dichotomy. Every real Javascript application I’ve seen in recent years mixes FP and OOP extensively.

The most common form of object composition in JavaScript is known as object concatenation (aka mixin composition). It works like ice-cream. You start with an object (like vanilla ice-cream), and then mix in the fea…