I think you're greatly exaggerating the death of jQuery
> old trick's won't work
> writing is on the wall
jQuery still works and is used in an crazy amount of websites. It's not going away soon. The biggest downside is the extra network request, but it's probably cached in 99% of browsers, so all that's left is some extra CPU time.
You're also exaggerating the claims of jQuery defenders. No one here is arguing that the site should keep jQuery, or that you should write a ton of new jQuery code.
Chrome started partitioning the cache a couple years ago to mitigate timing attacks, so there's no network savings anymore when a bunch of sites all link to the same jQuery cdn entry.
> old trick's won't work
> writing is on the wall
jQuery still works and is used in an crazy amount of websites. It's not going away soon. The biggest downside is the extra network request, but it's probably cached in 99% of browsers, so all that's left is some extra CPU time.
You're also exaggerating the claims of jQuery defenders. No one here is arguing that the site should keep jQuery, or that you should write a ton of new jQuery code.