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Re:Should JavaScript be split into two languages? Google pro... by petre on Sunday October 27, 2024 @01:16AM (#41960031)
The vanilla js APIs are so atrocious that we got jquery.
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Re:Should JavaScript be split into two languages? Google pro... by javajosh on Sunday October 27, 2024 @03:49AM (#41960589)
I think you missed a tense. Was atrocious, we got jquery, which got folded back into javascript. If the last time you worked with vanilla js was when jquery was hot, you're views are outdated.
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Re:Should JavaScript be split into two languages? Google pro... by petre on Sunday October 27, 2024 @09:23AM (#41962466)
Sibling and parent/child traversal is still a disaster and querySelector, querySelectorAll doesn't solve it.
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