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by itcmcgrath 3088 days ago
"Of course there's going to be less questions"

Yet there are counter examples that show that can't be the complete story: http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=[jquery,python]&relative=false

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You could argue that jQuery covers handling (a part of) DOM APIs which are updated only rarely.

Once you know what $().append().on().trigger() does, there's not that much left to know about jQuery. And most everything can be understood from docs.

Python, however, is a continuously evolving language with an ever expanding number of libraries and areas of application.

Python is just an outlier when looking at this. Here's[1] a larger set of languages and frameworks, and given the premise it's not hard to guess the JS frameworks from the graph.

1: http://sotagtrends.com/?tags=[jquery,angularjs,c,c%2B%2B,rub...