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by vagrantJin 1983 days ago
Jquery isn't going anywhere. It might take a few weeks to get a JNR dev up to speed with native dom apis. It'll take a few hours for them to grasp jquery and begin writing working spaghetti in no time at all.

> Loading the entirety of jQuery just to access some of the remaining features just means you're loading JavaScript that you aren't going to use

Isn't this the penalty for every single library we use. At most we can use about 20% and the rest is just out taking space.