jQuery will stay around (or something similar to jQuery) for the very simple reason of: it's quicker to write. jQuery will change with the times, just like in 2

jQuery will stay around (or something similar to jQuery) for the very simple reason of: it's quicker to write. jQuery will change with the times, just like in 2.0 where old browsers aren't supported, jQuery might become just a simple API to beautify `querySelectorAll('.fruit .banana')` to `$('.fruit .banana')`. It accomplishes the same thing in a cleaner syntax. Also the plugin system ensures that there is one system to work with. I pretty much know how a jQ plugin is going to work before I even read the documentation.