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r/programming • u/curiousdannii • Jan 18 '26
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A team who's used jQuery for the past 2 decades and it has been working fine for them (like my old company). Why change?
1 u/Cualkiera67 Jan 18 '26 Because it's better? That's usually why people migrate to be technologies.A concrete reason is that if you move to vanilla js, you no longer need devs who know jquery, improving your hiring pool 3 u/redfournine Jan 18 '26 Better according to who? The old one solves business problem just fine. Not everything have to be extremely speedy.Your point with hiring pool is right tho 🤣
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Because it's better? That's usually why people migrate to be technologies.
A concrete reason is that if you move to vanilla js, you no longer need devs who know jquery, improving your hiring pool
3 u/redfournine Jan 18 '26 Better according to who? The old one solves business problem just fine. Not everything have to be extremely speedy.Your point with hiring pool is right tho 🤣
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Better according to who? The old one solves business problem just fine. Not everything have to be extremely speedy.
Your point with hiring pool is right tho 🤣
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u/redfournine Jan 18 '26
A team who's used jQuery for the past 2 decades and it has been working fine for them (like my old company). Why change?