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Okay, then I need an addendum:

Explicit [within the context of the language]. And by that I did mean human readable.

    const divElement = document.createElement("div");
    divElement.textContent = "Hello world";
    document.appendChild(divElement);

Is more human readable to me than the jQuery abstraction (that pulls in piles of other potentially unused tooling) than:

    $(document).append("div").text("Hello, world");

It's more verbose, sure. But like I said in another comment, if I have to repeat the methods more than twice I'd probably just wrap the couple of lines into a function, like:

    function createTextElement(type: string, text: string): void {
        const element = document.createElement(type);
        element.textContent = text;
        document.appendChild(element);
    }

And anywhere that's called it's quite clear what is being done

    createTextElement("div", "Hello world");

This seems to be preferred when writing C as well, no? Rather than abstracting common methods to more opaque symbols?

Maybe it's just me, but I prefer the English, descriptive version and I prefer working with code formatted the same way. The language (JS) has plenty of quirks as it is.

Comparing C/Assembly I don't think is a 1:1 fair comparison, though. Unless you're including TypeScript—which is how I tend to write JS anyway (whenever possible).

[dmitriid]

> if I have to repeat the methods more than twice I'd probably just wrap the couple of lines into a function, like:

I wrote in a sibling comment:

Once you write it not once, but twice, or five times, you will either switch to a lib/framework, or to jQuery, or will write your own wrapper not that different from jQuery.