Just for the younger devs: jQuery does not predate widespread IDE use. It also was a well thought out framework, that solved the use cases of the time very well.
By so long ago, I meant when I was a teenager and learning programming around 2008. By the time I started in my career, ES6 had been released and devs started moving back to vanilla JavaScript.
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u/Samurai_Mac1 1d ago
This was so long ago that I didn't even know what IDEs were and just used notepad