Neon, or how I stopped hating the prototype and loved the class

For the Ruby GDL lightning talks on 5/9/12

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1. Ne 10 20.179 -245.90 -248.44 [He]2s22p6 0.90 Neon
2. Or how to stop hating the prototype and love the class
3. The philosophy is that it should not try to emulate other languages, so it preserves the JavaScript good parts, but with a nicer syntax to create classes that ensure interfaces and include reusable functionality as modules.
4. Class(Breezi.UI, 'Button').inherits(Breezi.Widget)({ ELEMENT_CLASS : 'ek-button', prototype : { label : 'button', init : function(config){ var button = this; Breezi.Widget.prototype.init.call(this, config); this.element.bind('click.button', function (e) { button.dispatch('click', { originalEvent : e }); }); } } });
5. Javascript for Rubyists Targeted to backend developers who struggle with Javascript
6. Does not replace Javascript Just useful to wrap around your mind, but you still have to learn Javascript. Just the good parts!
7. https://github.com/azendal/neon