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JQuery is still maintained. The last pull request was 2 weeks ago. Remember that this is a _mature_ project and as such doesn't need the plethora of pull requests everyday.

Personally if you are spending all that time and energy recreating the wheel just to say "you don't use JQuery ", you're being an idiot and might as well just use JQuery. Seriously I wonder how much they actually spent in dollar hours on this pull request.

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> Personally if you are spending all that time and energy recreating the wheel just to say "you don't use JQuery ", you're being an idiot

I prefer the term "Magpie Developer" https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-magpie-developer/

Personally, I'm currently working on projects that still use Bootstrap 3. It still works, just a jQuery still works.

Not only are you recreating it, but your universe of users is smaller. Love it or hate it jQuery is being battle tested day in and day out by __a lot__ of sites and site visitors.

Sure there's some baggage. There's always some trade off somewhere, isn't there. But if things working is a priority then jQuery isn't such a bad thing.

> Personally if you are spending all that time and energy recreating the wheel just to say "you don't use JQuery "

Heavy movie trailer voice Consider a world, where there is no problem that required jQuery.

I refer to React and such.

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