To be fair, prototypal inheritance is relatively uncommon language design. I'd rank it as considerably harder to understand than the % operator.

▲

stephenr 8 hours ago | parent [-]

That's a good point, it's only been around for 30 years, and used on 95% of websites. It's not really popular enough for a developer to take an hour or two to read how it works.

▲

saghm 8 hours ago | parent [-]

The word "used" is doing some heavy lifting there. Not all usage is equal, and the fact that it's involved under the hood isn't enough to imply anything significant. Subatomic physics is used by 100% of websites and has been around for billions of years, but that's not a reason to expect every web developer to have a working knowledge of electron fields.

	▲	stephenr 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Fair point. Let's compromise and say that whoever is responsible for involving (javascript\|electron fields) in the display of a website, should each understand their respective field. I don't expect a physicist or even an electrical engineer or cpu designer to necessarily understand JavaScript. I don't expect a JavaScript developer to understand electron fields. I do expect a developer who is writing JavaScript to understand JavaScript. Similarly I would expect the physicist/etc to understand how electrons work.