| From the article; > Today many web developers consider jQuery to be “legacy software.” With all due respect to this perspective, jQuery is currently used on 75% of all public websites, a number that dwarfs all other JavaScript tools. I feel that is misleading. I worked on a lot of websites and none of them included jQuery willingly or sometimes even knowingly. Either it's shipped as a peer dependency or we're talking about wordpress and the like which use it (and drives much of the web!). I've seen it frequently shipped because of scripts embedded into a larger frontend codebase. Stuff they really don't want there to begin with. I do not for a second believe that 75% of frontend dev work is in jQuery. In fact, I'd be surprised if it's more than 5% of all frontend engineering work is using jQuery. Obviously some people might still use it for whatever reason; but those are a tiny majority (and probably quite vocal about it / over represented if they still prefer it). So yes, to all intends and purposes I would claim jQuery is legacy software. Current usage (wherever they got that number from) does not mean it's still the preferred choice for the majority of web developers. |