Understanding the difference between Object.create() and new SomeFunction()

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Very simply said, new X is Object.create(X.prototype) with additionally running the constructor function. (And giving the constructor the chance to return the actual object that should be the result of the expression instead of this.)

That’s it. 🙂

The rest of the answers are just confusing, because apparently nobody else reads the definition of new either. 😉

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