Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by labster on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:24PM (#12970479)

PHP should be significantly more embarrassing than jQuery. The jQuery interface is well designed and reliable.

The fact that it still works is important. As long as I've got clients asking for IE 8 support, jQuery's going to be in my toolbox. And probably even after.

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Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by tjons on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:31PM (#12970564)

Ouch. PHP dev here. We write design-pattern-influenced code with classes, abstract classes, DI, interfaces, etc. It's not all bad.

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Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by brandon272 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:37PM (#12970645)

You know, it's been well over a decade of seeing the anti-PHP stuff and I still have yet to see a "PHP is evil" argument that doesn't fall apart after a little scrutiny. I proudly use it and am happy to look at it's usage vs. alternative languages in any of the real-world projects I've developed.

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Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by markplindsay on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:34PM (#12970600)

React (plus a couple shims) works great with IE8 up until v15.

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Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by fetbaffe on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @03:56PM (#12971433)

PHP has a renaissance now, nothing embarrassing at all.

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Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by flukus on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @09:50PM (#12973832)

$Do $you $still $need $dollars $everywhere?

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Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by fetbaffe on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:47AM (#12975612)

Of course, we don't code for free.

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