What are patterns you could use with prototype inheritance that you cannot with class?

Question

Everyone seems to generally agree that prototype inheritance is simpler and more flexible than class inheritance. What I have not seen in the literature that I\'ve read is very

Answer 1

One difference (perhaps at least conceptually) is that class inheritance implies that the child IS-A type of the parent. Prototype inheritance makes no such implication; a mammal is a prototype for a cat (the Merriam-Webster definition says this means it's a "pattern for"), but nothing else. A cat is free remove/add/change behaviors as it sees fit.