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0 pointsirrational7y ago0 comments

Nah, there were always tons of alternatives to PHP. What real alternatives were there to jQuery? There were none.

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molf7y ago

I know this is a rhetorical question, but Prototype.js was pretty similar to jQuery; although jQuery won the popularity contest.

jexah7y ago

I don't presume to be an expert on history (only entered the webdev domain in 2010), but didn't prototype come out at least a couple of years after jQuery?

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mappu7y ago

Mootools had a fighting chance.

vezycash7y ago

Javascript is irreplaceable to the web

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