The Benefits of JavaScript Prototype

Question

I\'ve been wondering about JavaScript\'s prototypal nature, and the benefits of it, and have come down to the following list :

1) Inheritance

Answer 1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype-based_programming#Comparison_with_class-based_models

Also, please see the discussion of prototype inheritance in the answers to this:

prototype based vs. class based inheritance