Self style using JavaScript prototypal inheritance

[owen at backspaces.net]

 I'm interested in using JavaScript with the style Self uses: prototypal inheritance, not classical. This is a common issue in the JS community. What's lacking is understanding of the core Self "magic", why it's so successful.
 

 I asked about this as an Issue on Self's github page:
   https://github.com/russellallen/self/issues/57
 .. and was pointed to this mail group.
 

 JS has good support for prototypal techniques. And several "champions" of its use. (Eric Elliot and Kyle Simpson are the best known)
   Eric: The Two Pillars of JavaScript
   https://goo.gl/u7uRV7
   Kyle: JS Objects: Inherited a Mess
   https://davidwalsh.name/javascript-objects
   ..see Part 3 for diagrams: scroll too "The Whole Pie" & "Looks are everything"
 What it doesn't have is a Self-oriented guide, how to tease out of JS the success of Self.
 

 Specifically, I'm rebuilding http://agentscript.org from a JS dialect CoffeeScript to the newest version of JS, es6. I'm attempting prototypal inheritance but I bet I'm missing a lot!
 

 Any pointers to successful prototypal usage that would help JS succeed?
 

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