Thanks for this. Really resonates. It is fast becoming clear that js is our c and jquery is our c++. Things like coffescript, backbone and angular are attempti

Thanks for this. Really resonates. It is fast becoming clear that js is our c and jquery is our c++. Things like coffescript, backbone and angular are attempting to provide a cleaner interface to the memory management which we could equate to the Dom. High level, abstract models, and allowing us to think of things in much more elegant ways. jQuery wasnt anything new, we had seen others similar, none however got the ease of use down quite like jQuery, and certainly none of them got the market share. While this guys post isn't all that useful to me, maybe even a bit odd to find on HN, I still am greatful for this thread and will definitely be taking another pass of angular this weekend. Seems like it's a bit better understood and I think I'm clearer on its intent. Discl: I was previously in the camp that felt angular was taking us many steps back into coupling of ui to js. It sure seems that way but it may have been the case we were just doing it wrong way back then (on click=) Edits: new phone, autocomplete, hasn't adjusted yet.