[samwillis]

While I agree to some extent, jQuery is so prolific online [0] there will always be jobs for those “grey beards” who know it well. There will always be legacy codebases that make extensive use of jQuery that will never be rewritten and are too important to retire.

jQuery is the new Cobol!

I’m not a “grey beard” but I’m currently doing a freelance project updating the UI on a Perl+jQuery site… As much as we would like to rewrite it from scratch it’s very unlikely to ever happen, it’s going to be maintained as is with small steps towards “modernisation” over time.

0: jQuery is used by between 15-40x more sites than React depending source:

https://www.similartech.com/compare/jquery-vs-react-js

https://w3techs.com/technologies/comparison/js-jquery,js-rea...

[dheera]

To be fair, vanilla JS, especially document.querySelector, still hasn't caught up with all the features of jQuery and any other framework is going to be much, much bigger than jQuery.

It's not COBOL until something replaces jQuery that is easier than jQuery.