> As one of the commenters pointed out, a lot of stuff was copied from jQuery to make it work. "a lot" is an important clarification there, though. If they cop

> As one of the commenters pointed out, a lot of stuff was copied from jQuery to make it work. "a lot" is an important clarification there, though. If they copied 99% of jQuery over then yes, it's a total waste of time. But 5%? 10%? That's a meaningful reduction in download size.