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		cookingmyserver on March 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: jQuery 3.6.0 Vanilla has always been able to do what jQuery can, otherwise jQuery wouldn't exist. It all depends on what your threshold for abstraction and verbosity is. That is going to depend on what you are doing and who you are.

Turing_Machine on March 2, 2021 [–]

Exactly.

I mean, all you really need is a Turing Machine, but they're not very pleasant to program.

Same thing with vanilla JS and jQuery.

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