> MooTools itself isn't that interesting anymore Show MooTools code to a jQiddie who's never seen it before, but who is actually proficient at OO, and I guarantee they'll find it _interesting_. They won't both learning it because it won't get them hired, but that's just self-interest. MooTools will remain like any niche- and or dead-but-better language/dialect. You don't look at SmallTalk and go, "Oh, nothing cool about that, now that jQuery is in the house."
In fact I think it is every bit as interesting as ever, it just never reached enough people who were _already developers_. It will still be interesting 10 years from now when jQ's market power makes ECMAScript itself slide toward jQ-style ugliness. Despite others' attempts to be diplomatic, jQ sucks. It may be the worst, well, "thing" in IT I've ever seen. A little more hate thrown its way instead of diplomacy and we'd be in better shape now. Remember attacks on VB 6.0, "If you ever code professionally in VB you'll never get better"? That didn't kill VB, but it made sure the lanes were open for new languages. And VB was 100x better than jQ.. -- S. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MooTools Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to mootools-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
