Summing up

Prototypical inheritance is usually misunderstood with prototype delegation, but it is more related to concatenative inheritance. It simplifies object creation and sets clear boundaries about what is to be inherited and what is not. It has clear advantages over class inheritance and solves many design flaws of the same. We want to sign off with a famous problem of class inheritance, the Gorilla/Banana problem:

Imagine you simply desire a ripe banana to enjoy. However, when employing class inheritance, you inadvertently inherit not only the banana but also the gorilla holding it and, by extension, the entire jungle surrounding them. This excessive inheritance of unwanted properties can lead to bloated and unwieldy code structures.

To overcome this hurdle, concatenative inheritance provides a more controlled and flexible alternative. By selectively merging desired properties from various sources, concatenative inheritance allows you to obtain the banana without inheriting the entire jungle along with it.

In essence, concatenative inheritance empowers developers to craft lean, maintainable, and reusable code, avoiding the pitfalls of class inheritance and achieving greater precision in object composition.