as i pass through my incarnations in every conference & youtube vid,

i make my proper prostrations to the gods of the hot new thing

peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,

and silent old jquery, I notice, outlast them all

Selecting an element right from the DOM,

With syntax so simple (and not a fork bomb),

No matter the changes in chorus and verse,

Every new framework . . . will make it all worse.

Within your questions and inner for loop,

Is readable syntax (not alphabet soup),

Give up on your promises, avoid callback hell,

Just keep using jQuery - I promise, it's swell!

I wouldn't really consider it alive in the grand scheme of things.

According to https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery:

> jQuery is used by 94.5% of all the websites whose JavaScript library we know. This is 77.5% of all websites.

This appears to be current data too (Oct 2023). I'm not sure how reliable the data is, but it is congruent with my experience that _a lot_ of websites still use jQuery. It's easy to forget the HN crowd is also in a bubble. If you only read articles here, you'd think everyone is using the latest JS framework du jour, but lots of the web still runs on PHP and jQuery.

Not that surprising actually, since jQuery is bundled with WordPress.

yes, but why on earth would you pick it for something greenfield? The only justification I could see is it being a tool you are personally familiar with.

Maybe COBOL as well. That doesn't mean I want to use it in my day-to-day life.

Washboards might outlive washing machines but I still prefer the latter to do my laundry.