> Today many web developers consider jQuery to be “legacy software.” With all due respect to this perspective, jQuery is currently used on 75% of all public websites, a number that dwarfs all other JavaScript tools.
I feel that is misleading. I worked on a lot of websites and none of them included jQuery willingly or sometimes even knowingly.
Either it's shipped as a peer dependency or we're talking about wordpress and the like which use it (and drives much of the web!).
I've seen it frequently shipped because of scripts embedded into a larger frontend codebase. Stuff they really don't want there to begin with.
I do not for a second believe that 75% of frontend dev work is in jQuery. In fact, I'd be surprised if it's more than 5% of all frontend engineering work is using jQuery.
Obviously some people might still use it for whatever reason; but those are a tiny majority (and probably quite vocal about it / over represented if they still prefer it).
So yes, to all intends and purposes I would claim jQuery is legacy software. Current usage (wherever they got that number from) does not mean it's still the preferred choice for the majority of web developers.
That number definitely needs some clarification. My guess is that if a single page uses jQuery on a domain, it counts, even though very little of the functionality depends on it. For a large organization with decades of legacy content, it's not hard to imagine jQuery is still used here and there.
> Today many web developers consider jQuery to be “legacy software.” With all due respect to this perspective, jQuery is currently used on 75% of all public websites, a number that dwarfs all other JavaScript tools.
I feel that is misleading. I worked on a lot of websites and none of them included jQuery willingly or sometimes even knowingly.
Either it's shipped as a peer dependency or we're talking about wordpress and the like which use it (and drives much of the web!).
I've seen it frequently shipped because of scripts embedded into a larger frontend codebase. Stuff they really don't want there to begin with.
I do not for a second believe that 75% of frontend dev work is in jQuery. In fact, I'd be surprised if it's more than 5% of all frontend engineering work is using jQuery.
Obviously some people might still use it for whatever reason; but those are a tiny majority (and probably quite vocal about it / over represented if they still prefer it).
So yes, to all intends and purposes I would claim jQuery is legacy software. Current usage (wherever they got that number from) does not mean it's still the preferred choice for the majority of web developers.