Hey Jake, Thanks for the kudos to the jQuery team. Much appreciated.
What I've seen is an evolution in the jQuery community where developers are realizing that they need to have a deeper understanding of JS in order to be successful with jQuery. Nick Morgan's description is right on target and the community is becoming much more aware of this. Yes, jQuery makes many things so easy that it can build a false sense of language understanding. I'm seeing many "jQuery" developers come to this realization and begin shoring up their JS skills. With that said, jQuery, Prototype, MooTools and countless other libs deserve a ton of credit for making JavaScript more accessible and palpable to developers. Rey ------------------------------ From: Jake Verbaten Sent: 11/8/2011 8:14 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [JSMentors] Studying Javascript....Need help..badly.. It's not jquery that makes you lazy. It's the community of jQuery developers that promotes being lazy, because you can just use jQuery as a hammer to solve all your problems. I second avoiding jQuery, merely so you don't have to deal with "jQuery developers". And thats not the core team, they know what they are doing. It's the average developer who uses jQuery and doesnt understand anything of the layers beneath. They are the ones spreading misinformation. On Nov 8, 2011 4:49 AM, "Rey Bango" <[email protected]> wrote: No, jQuery does not make developers lazy. Developers make themselves lazy by not taking the initiative to learn more. I'm a member of the jQuery team and I *always* preach learning JavaScript and leveraging jQuery as a complement to the language, not a replacement. Rey... On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Amit Agarwal <[email protected]> wrote: > > -1 to jQuery. Librari... -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
