Still one of my favourite libs on the whole planet. I will always love jQuery. It is responsible for my career in (real) companies.
Live on jQuery! Go forth and multiply!
Nice to see it still around and updated. The sad part is I guess this means React will be around in 2060.
there are already de facto two Reacts. by 2060, there will be five.
Two Reacts!?
Unbelievably, still supports IE 11 which is scheduled to be deprecated in jQuery 5.0
Backwards compatibility. Apparently there are still some people stuck on IE11. It's nice that jQuery still supports those users and the products that they are still running.
Are those people/products upgrading jQuery though?
Who is still stuck on IE 11---and why?
I think anything still using ActiveX like stuff or "native" things. Sure, it should all be dead and gone, but some might not be and there is no path forward with any of that AFAIK.
Some corporate machines still run XP. Why upgrade what works?
SECURITY
No love for $…?
I was surprised that for most of my smaller use cases, Zepto.js was a drop-in replacement that worked well. I do need to try the jQuery slim builds, I've never explored that.
Even after migrating to ES modules, jQuery is still somewhat bloated. It is 27 kB (minified + gzipped) [0]. In comparison, Preact is only 4.7 kB [1].
jQuery does a lot more though, and includes support older browsers.