OO Javascript.. why?

[MyNameIsKir]

What's the point of trying to use Javascript like it's an object oriented language?

[psychic stalker]

MyNameIsKir

What's the point of trying to use Javascript like it's an object oriented language?

What's the point of using Java as an object-oriented language?
What's the point of using Objective-C as an object-oriented language?
What's the point of using C++ as an object-oriented language?
What's the point of using Ruby as an object-oriented language?
What's the point of using Python as an object-oriented language?
What's the point of using OCaml as an object-oriented language?
What's the point of using Lisp as an object-oriented language?
What's the point of using ....

Object-orientation is simply a way of writing abstractions. Nothing more, nothing less. In certain situations, the best way to model data is as an object. It's as simple as that.

JavaScript, though, is a bit of an odd duck when it comes to OOP: Instead of classes (well, up until ES6, which I think is an abominable update), it uses closures and prototypes to build objects. Conceptually, it's not actually all that different from how Java or C (that's not a typo) does OOP, except you don't define a structure to objects, and methods get put in the object's prototype.

[oh dear zealot]

Well, the thing is, it is an object oriented language.

Pyschic Stalker hit the nail on the head, I don't know anyone who really could
have explained it any better.

[Usaki Tsukino]

well, almost everything in JS is treated as objects =w=;

i would personally wish for a wider variety of native languages in my web browser, but thats another topic =w=;

[psychic stalker]

Usaki Tsukino

i would personally wish for a wider variety of native languages in my web browser, but thats another topic =w=;

Until we get a proper standard bytecode VM, you'll have to make do with asm.js, the 25 or so Lisp dialects (that I know of), Coffee (and its 15 dialects), Dart, TypeScript, a dozen Ruby implementations, a dozen Python implementations, Java and Scala compiled to JavaScript, .NET recompilers, a dozen Haskell compilers, a handful of OCaml compilers, Emscripten and a half-dozen other C++-to-JS compilers, and a few other languages that people have targeted to JavaScript. Other than that, yeah, there's no variety at all.