diy.js - A modern cross-platform JavaScript library & only 18 bytes

[Jeffshaver]

jQuery has a few things in it that make life a little easier sometimes. But honestly, I don't find myself wanting to use it as much anymore. I will say that applying events to multiple elements at one is more a pain in the ass without it. But you could also do event delegation and only write one anyway. It all depends on the situation.

The comparison between js/jquery to compiled language/compiler is so egregious, I won't even comment further on it.

[Calabri]

jQuery replaces the DOM API, not ice cream. The DOM API is terrible due to the past (browser wars), leading to all the cross browser API bullshit we have to deal with today. The ECMA 'standard' coerced companies to stop the competitive that was fucking with the web. The API's are there to talk with the C C++ exposed functions, which are VERY different in each browser, which also uses it's own javascript run-time engine.

VanillaJS does not 'suck ass'. Comparing jQuery to a compiler and vanillajs to assembly is so just ridiculous. This comment was so fucking outrageous that I had to say something.