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Re:Perfectly Cropped by 9935c101ab17a66 on Friday October 25, 2019 @05:34PM (#21359467)
I don't disagree with your sentiment re: Js, it's a problem for sure. But a jQuery project from 10 years ago is completely different from a pseudo-native app (aka electron). I guarantee the jQuery project doesn't provide an iota of the functionality that the electron app does (and if this isn't the case, why use electron in the first place?!)
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Re:Perfectly Cropped by Silhouette on Friday October 25, 2019 @09:45PM (#21361071)
People were already building substantial web apps long before the current generation of popular libraries and frameworks were around. Some of those applications are in use to this day, jQuery and all, and still in active development. They can include a huge amount of functionality after that much work has gone into them.

Would a team choose the same tools if they were starting those apps with a blank canvas today? Probably not. Is anyone going to throw away a decade of working code to rewrite the apps that already exist? Also probably not.

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Re:Perfectly Cropped by pier25 on Friday October 25, 2019 @06:44PM (#21359962)
True, but my point is that backwards compatibility is almost totally neglected in the JS world and jQuery did that very well.
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