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jQuery is a great project, but it's definitely NOT how JS should be written. Its goal is to be fast, unobtrusive, and work in most browsers at the expense of co
by polgardy 16y ago
jQuery is a great project, but it's definitely NOT how JS should be written. Its goal is to be fast, unobtrusive, and work in most browsers at the expense of comprehensibility.
- artlogic 16y agoI'd argue that jQuery embraces a lot of ideas that new JS programmers often overlook - functions as objects for example. jQuery also gives you primitives to perform functional/set based operations. For me, approaching JS as a functional language has been the key to writing good clean JS. jQuery helped me with this by allowing me to ignore all the psuedo OO stuff in JS and concentrate on the functional features.