Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency

Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by ljm on Tuesday February 12, 2019 @06:47PM (#19148905)

GitHub is a terrible metric. You probably use tools like grep and ls many times a day... you do not check if ls is up to modern standards and has a constant stream of issues and fixes. You don’t do it for grep, or git...you depend on git.

You cannot apply instant gratification to software library dev. If the work for a library was done and satisfied in 2015, then it’s fucking done. It’s tried and tested. It gets security patches. It’s maintained.

Recency and the last github commit is not a metric for stability or success.

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Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by lsiebert on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @12:58AM (#19150805)

FWIW, git is actively being developed. I see both pull requests and traffic on the git mailing list pretty much every day.

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Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by leadingthenet on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:05AM (#19151849)

There's no such thing as "done" software. Your view is incompatible with reality, I'm afraid.

Yes, I did check whether ls was still actively being developed, saw that it wasn't doing anything new, and switched to exa, which is a fantastic little project, with sane defaults, less cruft, and greater speed. You can always improve software, some people just get bored of doing so, and then declare it "done". But it isn't, and it's never going to be.

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Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by IgorPartola on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:53AM (#19152644)

So you are like Barney from How I Met Your Mother? “What’s my other other number one rule Ted? New is always better!”

How many times can you update a URL parser or leftpad? Do you need to update them just to up your GitHub activity meter?

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Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by karimf on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:48AM (#19152062)

Paul Graham said he "finished" writing Hacker News 12 years ago. [0]

This might even be more possible for "simpler" softwares.

[0] https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1049723540902215681

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Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by krapp on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @05:55AM (#19152106)

HN and Arc are still being updated, though, just not by Paul Graham.

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Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by freewilly1040 on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @11:22AM (#19154181)

Is whatever benefit you see worth the hassle when sharing scripts or setting up servers?

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Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by leadingthenet on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @01:04PM (#19155069)

If you mean for exa specifically, then yes. It’s mostly compatible with ls. Never caused problems in years now.

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