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This is good, with one major critique:

> ECMAScript is an object-oriented programming language, having concept of an object as its core abstraction.

This is technically correct but misses that Javascript is not OO in the way that many other languages are, but is instead prototypical in nature. That's an important distinction because creating long prototype chains in JS is a very bad and negative habit, where as the same behavior is absolutely fine in Java.




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