I was jQuery’s target audience at its heyday and at least for me, the big thing it brought to the table was $ and what’s now called a “fluent API” ($ methods re

I was jQuery’s target audience at its heyday and at least for me, the big thing it brought to the table was $ and what’s now called a “fluent API” ($ methods return $ instances unless they’re getters for primitives; it’s pretty much still my preferred way to explain the general concept of monads to people familiar with the pattern). Browser compatibility was just delicious icing on the cake.