Does Javascript's new operator do anything but make life difficult?

Question

I come from the traditional web developer background where I can by no means claim to really know anything about Javascript, however I am trying.

I currently have wh

Answer 1

You brought up Crockford's "JavaScript: The Good Parts."

New is a bad part. Page 114. I don't use it. (Well, almost never.)

Crockford does use it (in his beget() method).

Definitely don't use it when you can use something else. Create objects and arrays with object and array literals.