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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Edited

The "prototype" in JavaScript isn't the same thing as "prototype" in English

Huh? It's called prototype because it's pretty much exactly the same thing as prototype in English...

"a first, typical or preliminary model of something, especially a machine, from which other forms are developed or copied"