/sci/ - Science & Math

>>6143811
>our lead dev.

The key characteristic of an object orientated language would be that it would support polymorphism. Pretty much all dynamic languages do that.

The next characteristic would be encapsulation and that is pretty easy to do in Javascript also.

However in the minds of many it is inheritance (specifically implementation inheritance) which would tip the balance as to whether a language qualifies to be called object oriented.

Javascript does provide a fairly easy means to inherit implementation via prototyping but this is at the expense of encapsulation.

So if the criteria for object orientation is the classic threesome of polymorphism, encapsulation and inheritance then Javascript doesn't pass.

So your lead dev is a smart guy and you should fucking listen to him because you sound like a clueless overconfident idiot.