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by tehbeard 2625 days ago
> JQuery is a philosophy about respect, and about not knowing better, because you actually know that you don't.

Advocating ignorance seems, I don't know... ignorant?

The only sound argument for JQuery when not using react/vue/Ang. is the plugin ecosystem.

Otherwise current browser techniques (document.querySelector/All, fetch, map/reduce/filter/some etc) with polyfills does a better job.