[carlosjobim]

You're comparing combustion engines to nuclear power plants. Most vehicles will have combustion engines, even though a lot of energy is generated with nuclear technology.

> I'd also be curious what percentage of frontend roles are looking for someone proficient in jQuery versus other frameworks.

If they are using jQuery they don't need to hire a frontend engineer, because their problems are solved.

[seattle_spring]

> If they are using jQuery they don't need to hire a frontend engineer, because their problems are solved.

If their site requires minimal interactivity and will never scale to a point where more than 2 or 3 people work on it, then yeah absolutely.

[wruza]

2 or 3 people working on a frontend without strict supervision and hierarchy is literally the same clusterfuck as with any other [non-]stack.