It would help if you told us what insight we missed about MooTools that would have made the world a better place? Why jQuery has made it such a miserable one?
It would help if you told us what insight we missed about MooTools that would have made the world a better place? Why jQuery has made it such a miserable one?
MooTools and other libraries might possibly be more powerful if you are developing in Javascript in general, but for web development I primarily care about DOM manipulation, and it was much easier to pick up jQuery than anything else at the time. It's a mistake to think that languages should win out simply based on functionality and capabilities, without taking into account things like ease of use and learning curve.
ES7 wanted to introduce an Array#contains method. But due to prototype extension issues like https://esdiscuss.org/topic/having-a-non-enumerable-array-pr... , they had to rename it to Array#includes ...