[collyw]

As a backend developer with a tiny bit of front end knowledge, ditching JQuery sounds pretty dumb. It was designed to iron out all the incompatibilities between browsers, no? And funnily enough since it became the standard a while ago, I hear a lot less complaints about trying to get something to work in IE.

(Sounds a little like the NoSQL crowd telling me how much easier their databases are to develop in, without any thought for why the relational model became so popular).