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And jQuery will likely outlive both.

• klysm 3y ago
  I wouldn't really consider it alive in the grand scheme of things.
  • caseyohara 3y ago
    According to https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/js-jquery: > jQuery is used by 94.5% of all the websites whose JavaScript library we know. This is 77.5% of all websites. This appears to be current data too (Oct 2023). I'm not sure how reliable the data is, but it is congruent with my experience that _a lot_ of websites still use jQuery. It's easy to forget the HN crowd is also in a bubble. If you only read articles here, you'd think everyone is using the latest JS framework du jour, but lots of the web still runs on PHP and jQuery.
    • Kiala 3y ago
      Not that surprising actually, since jQuery is bundled with WordPress.
    • klysm 3y ago
      yes, but why on earth would you pick it for something greenfield? The only justification I could see is it being a tool you are personally familiar with.
• recursivedoubts 3y ago
  as i pass through my incarnations at every conference & youtube influencer king, i make my proper prostrations to the gods of the hot new thing peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall, and reliable silent old jquery, I notice, outlasts them all
  • joelfried 3y ago
    Selecting an element right from the DOM, With syntax so simple (and not a fork bomb), No matter the changes in chorus and verse, Every new framework . . . will make it all worse. Within your questions and inner for loop, Is readable syntax (not alphabet soup), Give up on your promises, avoid callback hell, Just keep using jQuery - I promise, it's swell!
• morbicer 3y ago
  Maybe COBOL as well. That doesn't mean I want to use it in my day-to-day life. Washboards might outlive washing machines but I still prefer the latter to do my laundry.