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by halo 6401 days ago
The reason people use jQuery is because the default mechanism for accessing elements is longwinded and ugly. It's the exact same reason people use xml.etree.ElementTree over the W3C-style xml.dom.minidom in Python's standard library. Assuming that people want rid of it completely because they want a better interface is a rather bold assumption, especially when you consider the flexibility using the DOM provides.