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Re:When or If by abdusco on Monday March 14, 2022 @03:05PM (#30676724)
It was mootools.

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/smooshgate

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Re:When or If by mananaysiempre on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:06PM (#30677528)
... And underscore/lodash use the _(...) wrapper approach pioneered by jQuery’s $(...) precisely to avoid monkey-patching builtin objects like Mootools did (as well as some others I think, but I don’t really remember).
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Re:When or If by Izkata on Monday March 14, 2022 @04:46PM (#30678044)
PrototypeJS also had the monkey-patch approach.
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