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Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend by bihnkim on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @11:31PM (#17614884)
> frees dev cycles to focus on performance

Perhaps this is the case--jQuery saved them so much time that they've reached a point where they are free to optimize their frontend by removing jQuery.

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Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend by andrei_says_ on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:22PM (#17620166)
Maybe these are not the same developers?

I know I may be replacing jquery with stimulus or eventually vuejs but writing 5 lines of jquery code for my MVP is exactly the right balance today.

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Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend by kthejoker2 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:38AM (#17617363)
Knuth would approve. If you don't have a product, what are you optimizing?
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