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What's great about Jquery is that it doesnt change. Nor does PHP . The worlds most popular sites still run on both. Many years ago i found a jquery plugin for

by seydor 2y ago

What's great about Jquery is that it doesnt change. Nor does PHP . The worlds most popular sites still run on both. Many years ago i found a jquery plugin for drawing a signature on a tablet. It still works. This would have never happened with any mobile app framework or any of the 'post-post-post-modern' html frameworks. I love the web more than any time. It's 2024 and it's the only truly open platform, where you can plug in your thing and just leave it there. Every other platform is in a competition about who will be the biggest a-hole

madeofpalk 2y ago
jQuery has had plenty of breaking changes https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.0/ https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.0/ https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5/ https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5/. jQuery 4's breaking changes are massive https://blog.jquery.com/2024/02/06/jquery-4-0-0-beta/ https://blog.jquery.com/2024/02/06/jquery-4-0-0-beta/ The beauty of the web is that the underlying browers are incredibly backwards compatible. If you don't change jQuery or your post-post-post-modern framework, it's very likely continue to work just as they ever did.
dgb23 2y ago
> What's great about Jquery is that it doesnt change. Nor does PHP . PHP introduced several breaking changes in recent history and is continuing to do so for any foreseeable future. New versions come out in a galloping fashion and old ones are phased out just as fast. Personally I've already become allergic to forwards-incompatible churn, which many ecosystems are proudly introducing at a high pace, but deprecating and breaking old code regularly on top of it is exceptionally painful.
apantel 2y ago
People are responding to what you said about programming languages, but I think this was the more important point: > I love the web more than any time. It's 2024 and it's the only truly open platform, where you can plug in your thing and just leave it there. That’s what made me want to learn how to make websites in the 90’s as a child: you can acquire a domain, make a website, put it out there without having to pass through any gatekeeper’s filters, and it’s OUT THERE for everyone. That’s still true today, and no other platform is like that.

by seydor 2y ago

madeofpalk 2y ago

jQuery has had plenty of breaking changes https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.0/ https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.0/ https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5/ https://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/3.5/. jQuery 4's breaking changes are massive https://blog.jquery.com/2024/02/06/jquery-4-0-0-beta/ https://blog.jquery.com/2024/02/06/jquery-4-0-0-beta/ The beauty of the web is that the underlying browers are incredibly backwards compatible. If you don't change jQuery or your post-post-post-modern framework, it's very likely continue to work just as they ever did.

dgb23 2y ago

> What's great about Jquery is that it doesnt change. Nor does PHP . PHP introduced several breaking changes in recent history and is continuing to do so for any foreseeable future. New versions come out in a galloping fashion and old ones are phased out just as fast. Personally I've already become allergic to forwards-incompatible churn, which many ecosystems are proudly introducing at a high pace, but deprecating and breaking old code regularly on top of it is exceptionally painful.

apantel 2y ago

People are responding to what you said about programming languages, but I think this was the more important point: > I love the web more than any time. It's 2024 and it's the only truly open platform, where you can plug in your thing and just leave it there. That’s what made me want to learn how to make websites in the 90’s as a child: you can acquire a domain, make a website, put it out there without having to pass through any gatekeeper’s filters, and it’s OUT THERE for everyone. That’s still true today, and no other platform is like that.