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Assuming you mean that ironically. Unfortunately, the README doesn't reveal where the name comes from, but it is truly absurdly misleading, as if it came from a
by elaus 2y ago
Assuming you mean that ironically. Unfortunately, the README doesn't reveal where the name comes from, but it is truly absurdly misleading, as if it came from a random generator...
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- luckylion 2y agoI assumed it comes from jQuery defaulting to $ as an alias for the jQuery function.
- moffkalast 2y agoNot sarcastic at all actually, I take you you've missed the absolute horde of dollar signs it uses in its syntax? Reminds me of this old joke: "Why do greedy developers all learn PHP? Because there's a lot of dollars in that."
- elaus 2y agoOh wow, I really didn't make that connection. Thanks! Still not sure it really is a good name for a lib: someone who doesn't already know it will probably not think about jQuery when they see this name in a dependency list...