It's very weird to realise that this isn't long enough to remember a time when extending native prototypes was en vogue. Source: about 1 year ago
The parent is referring to the Prototype framework (http://prototypejs.org/), not the JS language concept of a prototype. Source: over 1 year ago
Let's not forget about http://prototypejs.org/ & http://script.aculo.us/ for modern Web 2.O. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
Overriding prototypes used to be state-of-the-art, and indeed it was one of the things that made me fall in love with JS. Frameworks like PrototypeJS and MooTools were built around this and it was of very limited convenience and unlimited headaches. Source: about 3 years ago
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