[oliyoung]

> probably hasn't been a developer for more than a few years or is just trying to sound smarter than they are by bashing an easy target.

Yet, Sara is neither of those, she's a well respected developer, who's work with CSS and SVG is world-class.

If she's using jQuery as a comparison she's doing it from a place of experience and knowledge

[freyir]

Who is? CSS and SVG are great, but how is her javascript? Neglecting the role that jQuery played is foolish, and even respected developers can say foolish things now and then.

[jhanschoo]

Unfortunately the shortness of the tweet leaves much to interpretation. Perhaps the analogy she was getting at is simply that it's being used in solutions that do not benefit from it.