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Just imagine if jQuery stopped development. Obviously someone would pick it up but if they didn't there would be a massive number of frontend skill sets becomin
by Igglyboo 12y ago
Just imagine if jQuery stopped development. Obviously someone would pick it up but if they didn't there would be a massive number of frontend skill sets becoming out of date.
- seanflyon 12y ago> skill sets becoming out of date To an extent. None of the people I know who use jQuery regularly would have any trouble adapting. They might be unproductive for a couple weeks. Large code bases that depend on jQuery seem like a bigger problem if for some reason no one was able maintain jQuery.
- SonicSoul 12y agomaybe i'm missing something, but I don't see jQuery as a massive skill-set investment. There is the selectors and the api, but it does overlap with a lot of other frameworks like underscore.js etc.. after switching it would be a matter of looking up the new syntax for a few weeks?
- 7952 12y agoThere are probably some quite old versions of JQuery running happily. The wonderful thing is that you can Google "jquery <insert problem here>" and get a good answer. This property would be useful for a long time to come even if better libraries evolved.