This is just silly. If you want to write raw javascript against the metal and want it to be in any kind of usable state, the person writing it would have to be

This is just silly. If you want to write raw javascript against the metal and want it to be in any kind of usable state, the person writing it would have to be very familiar with cross-platform issues and quirks in various browsers and be able to route around them. In other words, they would have to, by defintion, be good enough to implement their own javascript framework. Saying that using a framework which already handles this and is popular, standardized and free (as in speech) will increase the barrier for contribution is just plain misguided.