# 🔉 proto
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# 👁🗨 What the hell is proto ?
javascript uses prototype inheritance as opposed to classical inheritance used in other traditional programming languages
__proto__ is the actual object that is used in the lookup chain to resolve methods, etc.
prototype is the object that is used to build __proto__ when you create an object with new.
Destructuring
const { length } = "A string";
console.log(length);
// 8