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Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by black-tea on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @03:22AM (#19151406)
> Whereas before it was "jQuery for EVERYTHING", now it seems to be the reverse: "remove jQuery from EVERYTHING",

Reminds me of "replace ALL tables with divs" in the mid 2000s. I actually saw developers spending inordinate amounts of time using divs and css to display tabular data across browsers (which back then meant the one you used: Firefox, and the one everyone else used: IE6).

I'm not sure what causes this black and white thinking. I guess it's laziness. It's easy to spot the word jquery and say "bad". It's more difficult to consider each case independently.

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Re:Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency by JustSomeNobody on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @07:43AM (#19152577)
Herd thinking.

Magpie developer-ing.

But, really just mediocrity.

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