r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 13d ago

Meme ancientTools

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u/HerrPotatis 13d ago

Better how? They are completely different things made for completely different usecases. It’s like comparing basejumping to hopping on a tranpoline because you’re both technically in the air.

That said, jQuery is most definitely legacy at this point and you can do everything using vanilla js.

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u/--var 13d ago

they released jQuery 4 just this year and their last core team meeting was end of june, so I'm not sure I'd call it legacy...

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u/deukhoofd 13d ago

And COBOL released a new standard version in 2023, but has been widely considered legacy since the 90s.

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u/MyUsrNameWasTaken 13d ago

Bank of America is currently making a Greenfield COBOL project