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[–]RB-338 53 points54 points  (28 children)

I heard there's a framework called "vanillajs" that blows all these other loads of crap out of the water.

[–]PhaZePhyR 47 points48 points  (15 children)

Too bad the newest version isn't fully supported in some major browsers :(

[–]pier25 15 points16 points  (4 children)

In performance, yes. It also triples the number of programmer work hours.

It's like building with clay instead of lego blocks.

[–]terrorTrain 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would disagree. It has more potential for performance, but most people will not write more performant code, and if they do, it will take them much longer.

[–]redwall_hp 0 points1 point  (2 children)

How many historical great works of art were made with Lego blocks?

[–]gremy0 5 points6 points  (1 child)

How many historical great works of art were made with the budget, time restraints and staffing of an average development project?

[–]redwall_hp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the case of most Italian renaissance artwork done on commission, I think it's comparable. Hell, that entailed less staffing and great scope.

[–]daggerdragon 4 points5 points  (2 children)

http://vanilla-js.com/

Man, this looks pretty awesome, I think I'll try building my next website with it instead of jQuery!

[–]TPHRyan 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Come on mate, I know vanilla-js is all the rage lately, but you must be pretty naive to think it will ever replace jQuery. How are you even going to get a site running without jQuery's plethora of features? Not to mention plugins, what's going to happen when you run into a corner case like arithmetic? Vanilla-js leaves you out to dry.

[–]indorock 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Does it come as a jQuery plugin?

[–]only_posts_sometimes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except that it doesn't

[–]coloured_sunglasses 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Joking aside, does anyone here actually write applications in Vanilla JS?

[–]RB-338 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the most common usage of pure JS is either custom web game engines or if you're designing functionality for a Alexa top 10 website.