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>cant even name a similar piece of software in web development history that is as important as jQuery. Php?

• spc476 8y ago
  Netscape navigator?
• irrational 8y ago
  Nah, there were always tons of alternatives to PHP. What real alternatives were there to jQuery? There were none.
  • molf 8y ago
    I know this is a rhetorical question, but Prototype.js was pretty similar to jQuery; although jQuery won the popularity contest.
    • jexah 8y ago
      I don't presume to be an expert on history (only entered the webdev domain in 2010), but didn't prototype come out at least a couple of years after jQuery?
      • FroshKiller 8y ago
        Prototype was released like a year before jQuery.
        • jexah 8y ago
          Absolutely my bad there. Thanks for the info! jQuery's popularity must have been phenomenal, because I hadn't heard of Prototype until maybe 2011.
          • ioddly 8y ago
            I think Rails used to include it as a default.
  • vezycash 8y ago
    Javascript is irreplaceable to the web
  • mappu 8y ago
    Mootools had a fighting chance.
• kpil 8y ago
  Php is important in the way it exemplifies the total failure of the software industry to take advantage of it's 40-50 years of accumulated knowledge...