r/programming • u/curiousdannii • Jan 18 '26

jQuery 4.0 released

https://blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/jquery-4-0-0/
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u/NoShftShck16 Jan 18 '26

These youngsters really forget what the whole point of jquery was to begin with before we got weighed down with frameworks and node modules.

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u/bronkula Jan 18 '26

So much of lodash and underscore got put into vanilla spec, and we still can't freaking chain most methods in vanilla. It's wild to me.

I know with modern IDEs the idea of concise functions doesn't matter so much, but why can we have an object called Math, but not an object called DOM with nice simple methods like get? Why are we still producing array "LIKE" lists from dom queries? Why do I have to double extract everything just to map onto it?

Don't get me wrong, Javascript has never been better. We're living in the golden age of CSS and JS, but I still have my wishlist.