[ahoyhere]

In case anyone reading this exchange isn't privy to the facts of the matter:

Thomas doesn't "constantly" "attack" libraries "over 2k in size."

He's a core team member of Prototype, wrote/"founded" Scriptaculous, scripty2, and Zepto. All significantly larger than 2k. All different types of frameworks, libraries. All of which we use.

What Thomas does is promote smaller, more modular libraries -- based on experience. He promotes them because large libraries dominated the market utterly, and monocultures are not productive for hackers. So he started http://microjs.com.

Some people like to characterize him as a zealot for promoting an alternative and talking about why huge frameworks/libraries often have more tradeoffs than benefits.

[ricardobeat]

I guess after writing Prototype with it's 2GB source it's understandable that one would become a promoter of smaller, modular libraries ;)

I'm myself a supporter of small libs, actually wrote a zepto "competitor" to be compatible with IE9 [1], but get the impression everyone is being a little too defensive (offensive?) on the matter.

[1] http://ryejs.com