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Dude. Open source software.

• xeromal 10y ago
  That can indeed be part of a legacy, but many companies are not comfortable with open sourcing their proprietary software. A lot of exciting work happens in that space as well.
• myth_drannon 10y ago
  Even jQuery which is one of the most famous open source projects will be forgotten in 10 years or even less.
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  • elbear 10y ago
    I disagree. Software with that level of popularity doesn't disappear.
    • ad-hominem 10y ago
      Yeah, let's just boot up netscape navigator, aol, and lotus notes
    • myth_drannon 10y ago
      "Unsurprisingly I now use React for most of my coding instead." - John Resig, creator of jQuery https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/726058698989277185 https://twitter.com/jeresig/status/726058698989277185
    • clifanatic 10y ago
      Heck, even software with the equivalent level of unpopularity (PHP) doesn't disappear.
  • omouse 10y ago
    Nope, it'll live on and the code will be available for all to see and study which means it'll end up being a case study or research material in a textbook or Masters or Phd thesis. One day someone may try to make an emulator for IE5 and ES4 just to run jQuery (like we've seen done with the 6502 and C64).
  • collinmanderson 10y ago
    jQuery is _still_ in html5 boilerplate, which I consider to be a good simple starting point for content-based websites. https://html5boilerplate.com/ https://html5boilerplate.com/
    • tajen 10y ago
      But it seems jQuery won't be in HTML 9 Boilerstrap, so I don't know how long it will live: http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com http://html9responsiveboilerstrapjs.com