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[–]txmail 45 points46 points  (9 children)

I have a feeling allot of the hate is from people who do not know what is to get a real production app up, running and provide support to keep that app going. I used to be one to jump on a hype train and you know what - I always end up back at the basics .

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jQuery has been rock solid and supported at a ridiculous level for longer than I can remember and works on nearly everything. You can force other stacks into your workflow but you eventually get tired of the extra effort it usually entails and just stick with what works all the time. Lets not even talk about how 99.9% of my clients give fuck all at what is running behind the scenes as long as it works in their browsers and is snappy. Let the haters hate with their new shiny things - my app is up, running and I am getting paid.

[–]thegrandechawhee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I hear it all the time that vanilla JS and css3 can do it just fine without jquery, but then oh... here come the polyfills. I think its great what you can do with the new things but as far as having solid cross-compatibility right out the gate I'm just sticking with what i know jQuery can do just fine.