Arise jQuery!

Posted on July 10, 2007
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I don’t have much time in my hands, there’s a limit on my ability to dig into frameworks. Maybe I spent too much time on games. Yeah, thats the problem but it’s also my motivation for software development (trying to get a foot into game development). So it cancels out the bad part.

I read other’s thoughts on it (no, I’m not a psionicist), on blogs. Javascript frameworks that is. I picked up an RSS feed, someone blogging about A few days with YUI. I’ve also spent a few days with YUI, at first I thought it was great, with all the design pattern library and stuff, but then when I used it for a while, I become fed up. Too much code for simple stuffs.

That’s when I switched to mootools, which was great at first impression. Small stuffs, customizable and cool effects. Ok fine. I used it for a couple of days, tried to put a couple of other effects and that’s when thing starts to go ugly. Some effect stutters and halted. Hrm. After that I start looking for other frameworks for comparison. Some have poor docs some incomplete examples, not much adoption, etc. I stayed true to mootools.

There’s an effect that I wanted to implement and tried to put in another library, scriptaculous I think, and things started to get ugly. Errors, hundreds of them, going to thousands. Firebug was counting errors like an idiot savant chanting PI decimals.

Then, enter jQuery. It was my saviour. Fast, smooth, plays nice with others, elegant, much much more. And the adoption rate is freakishly amazing (digg, wordpress, etc). I ditched mootools for jQuery. No hard feelings. After I have chosen jQuery months later, Digg announce their adoption of jQuery. A big grin.

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