"jQuery doesn’t always offer enough of an upside to be worth loading. Backbone itself only uses a very small subset of the functionality provided by jQuery, so why bother with it?"
Is the overhead of loading jQuery really in any way a detriment to the overall performance of your application? I've seen comments like this a lot around HN lately, and I wonder if they're not a hyperbole. The size of jQuery, loaded once initially and then never again, cannot impact apps that much, can it? I've never considered all the wonderful benefits of jQuery to not be worth it.
