[ericb]

Totally agree you don't need jQuery. My criteria for inclusion was "does it make our development even slightly faster, on balance."

The answer was yes in this case. Perhaps that's just the familiarity of it, but at the end of the day, faster is faster.

I'd say my new philosophy is: let our competitors optimize for purity or trendiness or even render time while we optimize for development speed.

[ibeckermayer]

Look here son you don’t need jQuery. Go outside, dig up some Silicon, bake up some wafers, design and manufacture a cpu, strap it to a motherboard, hand-smelt some housing, throw some coal in the generator, write an OS, handcraft a browser, and use plain vanilla HTML/CSS/JS. Fucking kids these days with their _frameworks_