TLDR: "Tools of a certain level were good enough for our grandparents, they should be enough for you, young man: there's no point to enhance the tech stack, ev

TLDR: "Tools of a certain level were good enough for our grandparents, they should be enough for you, young man: there's no point to enhance the tech stack, everything exists already." Um, nope. Learn JS first, and know how and why to use it; don't just take a library for a Golden Hammer - but shunning jQuery for being one level too far from the metal is just plain weird. Remember, we're talking about JS executing in a HTML page inside a browser on top of a GUI on top of an OS on top of...turtles all the way down. Plus, I sort of remember the Dark Ages, before jQuery. Let me tell you: I'm immensely thankful for an abstraction layer against all those freakish browsers, their versions and their quirks. Can I natively select DOM elements by class name and attribute values in IE9? I don't know, and I don't give a flying fork - life is too short to spend it with browsers.