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GitHub says they are using polyfills instead of jQuery as well. The point is to not have to rely on external frameworks.
by Sephr 8y ago
GitHub says they are using polyfills instead of jQuery as well. The point is to not have to rely on external frameworks.
- balfirevic 8y ago> The point is to not have to rely on external frameworks. Why is that a worthwhile goal?
- mschuster91 8y agoTo reduce attack surface as well as maintenance burden for compatibility whenever something breaks during an upgrade. A polyfill is something that's not needed at all in modern browsers and thus can be considered pretty much final. jQuery is actually surprisingly stable compared to Angular/React/npm/rest-of-the-hipster-crap, but it has had its fair share of incompatibilities too.
- Spivak 8y agoIs a set of polyfills philosophically different than a framework?