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Re:Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative by aphextron on Sunday August 19, 2018 @12:22PM (#17794869)
I know exactly what jQuery is. I’ve used it happily for years on many projects. However it is completely obsolete in 2018 for anyone that does not need to support IE8.
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Re:Show HN: Umbrella JS, a 2.5kb jQuery alternative by alphakappa on Sunday August 19, 2018 @05:52PM (#17796371)
I may be mistaken, but sounds like you are referring to browser compatibility not being a good reason to adopt jQuery anymore.

But like the parent said above, there's more to jQuery than just getting browser compatibility - it's an abstraction for UI concepts that would require writing a ton of low level JS otherwise.

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