Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend
by untog on Thursday July 26, 2018 @09:33AM
(#17617308)
Why would it be the reasonable choice when it was created to solve a problem that largely doesn't exist any more?
jQuery wouldn't be created today in anything like its current form. It still lives on largely because of inertia. Using the APIs provided by the browser is in no way reinventing the wheel!
Re:Removing jQuery from GitHub.com frontend
by hatchnyc on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:29PM
(#17618705)
There is now a whole generation of FE developers for whom "JavaScript" is synonymous with "JQuery", as evidenced by endless questions on StackOverflow which use the terms interchangeable.
jQuery wouldn't be created today in anything like its current form. It still lives on largely because of inertia. Using the APIs provided by the browser is in no way reinventing the wheel!