Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing?

Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by zelon88 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:39PM (#12970662)

I disagree. Let's try adding 0.2 and 0.3 with the JScript library of your choosing and see if it's any easier than PHP.

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Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by marcosdumay on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @03:14PM (#12971035)

Javascript being bad does not make PHP any better.

There are more than 2 languages available for backend programming. Some even get both templating and IO right.

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Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by hood_syntax on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:46PM (#12970730)

Floating point math has been around for a very long time, I don't get why that's what you would pick as a problem; a lot of languages have the same behavior. I'm not a fan of JS either, so you don't have to give me a reason to dislike it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is jQuery still a thing? by zelon88 on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @02:57PM (#12970866)

I wasn't necessarily giving you a reason to dislike it. I was giving you a reason why I personally believe it to be over-hyped and convoluted (and why I disagree that PHP is embarrassing by comparison).

I picked floating point math as a problem because JScript would give you an incorrect answer.

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