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but youre right that people are unhappy with whatever you eventually leave out

Yeah. Im surprised that both of these left out Prototype.js which, to me, seems to be the father of these client-side libs

Yes! I think prototype was the first to use the dollar sign as a shorthand for dom methods.

i'll cop to the fact that its mainly bc i wasnt around for that time so i'm just reconstructing things from how they look to me today

Maybe an old dude like me should make an attempt