> it's implied that you shouldn't call yourself a dev if you use jQuery and not vanilla JS. I've never seen that. The closest I've come to seeing that is that

> it's implied that you shouldn't call yourself a dev if you use jQuery and not vanilla JS. I've never seen that. The closest I've come to seeing that is that comments that imply that using jQuery indicates lower levels of experience as a developer. > Cultural opposition is of the 'not invented here' variety, e.g. 'Why use Dropbox when you could do this w/ rsync? How is that "not invented here"? That seems more like a preference for open source software. I looked at submission history and I don't really see either of those attitudes prevalent in a quick scan of the comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youmightnotneedjquery.com https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youmightnotneedjquery...