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When was it that you used it? I haven't used it lately, and when I did I felt the same as you, but for what I've seen Dojo is no longer the "kitchen sink" it used to be. It's small, VERY modular, and has a lot of utilities and interesting things.

Not that jQuery doesn't have any of these. But jQuery was thought out as a DOM manipulation library and then people started sticking a ton of things on top of it.

Dojo is thought out as a modular toolkit, where DOM manipulation is just one of the libraries it includes.