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bad_user on Nov 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 90% Good parts of jQuery - at only 13% of the size

Moore's law is applied differently to mobile phones, as processing power is less important than battery life. And even if phones will get a lot more powerful, that's secondary to poor bandwidth, a problem that I bet we'll still have 4 years from now.

I use jQuery because it makes Javascript usage sane. Without it I would hate my job.

dingle_thunk on Nov 21, 2011 [–]

Have a play with CofffeeScript - perhaps it'll give you enough syntactic sugar that client-side frameworks become unnecessary.

bad_user on Nov 21, 2011 | [–]

CoffeeScript only takes care of syntax problems. It doesn't handle DOM traversing or other API related issues.

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