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Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by filleduchaos on Friday May 15, 2020 @11:15AM (#23193099)
There was/is so much that was genuinely awesome about jQuery. I still remember fiddling around with my blog as a teenager and being blown away by the DataTables plugin.
Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by jbergens on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:37PM (#23194156)
And large jquery apps often had so much spaghetti code that it took years to unravel.
Re:In Defense of the Modern Web by filleduchaos on Friday May 15, 2020 @01:56PM (#23195175)
Interestingly enough, neither myself nor MacWright advocated returning to writing large jQuery apps so I truly fail to see how this comment is relevant.