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In my experience--not that I'm a prolific JavaScript developer or anything--people tend to write out $(document).ready anyway because it makes their intent clearer. Personally, I have to do a little mental work every time I trip over the shortcut and prefer seeing $(document).ready.

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Javascript is the wild west of styles, this isn't valid advice.

$(function() {}) is a well known shortcut for jQuery. You might as well argue about whether or not to use the ternary operator or whether bootstrap's javascript is good or bad.

It's just your opinion. In these days King Canute could have used javascript styles instead of the sea.

One is just as valid as the other. You are mistaking your preference as a standard.

Well, at least camel case is generally agreed upon. Meanwhile, I wonder if anyone anywhere takes advantage of the breadth of unicode support for variable names.

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