I think this guy (the "Chairman and CTO" guy), needs only look at the sites using jQuery. Uh... ever heard of Intuit? Quickbooks? Quicken? TurboTax? MSNBC? The BBC? Intel?
It sounds to me like he's trying to justify their use of Dojo (which may or may not be a bad thing. I don't know. I've never used Dojo.), but the question is ... what's the point? Why say anything at all?
Cheers, Chris traunic wrote:
http://opensource.sys-con.com/read/358149.htm or the same in his blog: http://www.coachwei.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/4/2858104.html (not exactly new, but I just came across it today) Ok, so he is "Chairman and CTO" of a company that is betting the bank on Dojo but the specific targeting of jQuery seems a bit odd. >From him: "However, the coding style and structure of using jQuery for large scale application can cause serious maintenability issue." Later in the article he makes another statement about jQuery code: "This is just going to be an absolute nightmare for large scale applications and makes the already notorious code maintenance problem associated with Ajax even worse." He really does not explain why he feels this way. Frankly, I feel the exact opposite, putting a better interface on DOM manipulation and simplifying the JS has made my code easier to read and follow. Just ask the Java developers I work with who are not asking "what does this do again?" nearly as much as they used to.
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