> Some developers simply choose complexity Or have it chosen for them. I've been on dozens of "tool evaluation committees" in my life time and the only option

> Some developers simply choose complexity Or have it chosen for them. I've been on dozens of "tool evaluation committees" in my life time and the only option that's never on the table is "no tool at all". It seems to me to be almost a no-brainer that if you can develop a functioning application using Javascript without using jQuery, or Angular, or React, or ext-js, or Dojo, or GWT, or whatever the hell else flash-in-the-pan "technology" we're going to be kicking off a never-ending migrating away from next week, you should. I find myself in a very tiny minority.