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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.