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JavaScript Devs: Is It Still Worth Learning jQuery?
Nerval's Lobster writes: If you're learning JavaScript and Web development, you might be wondering whether to learn jQuery. After nearly a decade of existence, jQuery has grown into a fundamental part of JavaScript coding in Web development. But now we're at a point where many of the missing pieces (and additional features) jQuery filled in are present in browsers. So do you need to learn jQuery anymore? Some developers don't think so. The official jQuery blog, meanwhile, is pushing a separate jQuery version for modern browsers, in an attempt to keep people involved. And there are still a few key reasons to keep learning jQuery: Legacy code. If you're going to go to work at a company that already has JavaScript browser code, there's a strong possibility it has jQuery throughout its code. There's also a matter of preference: People still like jQuery and its elegance, and they're going to continue using it, even though they might not have to.
"People still like jQuery and its elegance"
LOL, elegent... When I have to look at JQuery code, it reminds me of the crap I used write in highschool. Can we please move forward.
I'd rather do things right. Sacrificing performance and, in the case of jQuery, readability to save a few minutes seems ridiculous.
I hope that I never have the displeasure of maintaining code written by you. It's developers like you that give the profession a bad name. Who wants to maintain your awesome spaghetti code even if it does perform better, which it probably doesn't? Not me. Been there, done that, had to rewrite it. If you need to write "high performance" code, please do it on your own hobby project instead. Your professional code is not the place to get cute.