"New jQuery release" was not on my 2026 bingo card

[codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org]

@annika there is still good in this world!!

[wakame@tech.lgbt]

@annika
I found some statistics... but I don't know how reliable that website is.

Maybe just Wordpress contributing to that squiggle?

(Source: https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript/jQuery)

[alwirtes@indieweb.social]

@annika @linuxiac I still use 1.x for my occasional programming needs. Am I a bad person?

[kiri@fosstodon.org]

@wakame
AFAIK 4.0 has been in the works for a loooooong while
@annika

[kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com]

@annika We talked about this on Thursday at work because one developer was saying jQuery is dead. As pretty much everyone says that started this job less than 10 years ago.

Saw the announcement for 4.0 a few months ago and I have the highest respect for the maintainers.

[spacelifeform@infosec.exchange]

@annika

'breaking changes' ?

I guess Microsoft has started a trend.

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@annika and a breaking one at that.

Who’d ever upgrade to that instead of e.g. VanillaJS?

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@annika i thought it was dead 🤨

[tml@mementomori.social]

@annika long-planned cleanups? Yay, are they finally getting rid of that arrogant use of $ to mean jQuery?

"We are so bloody important that we need to make use of us in your code look like it was some Perl-like built-in syntax or whatever."

[annika@xoxo.zone]

@tml That's what jQuery.noConflict() is for https://api.jquery.com/jQuery.noConflict/

Available since v1.0

[aubilenon@peoplemaking.games]

@annika Introducing: Breaking changes? ALL RIGHT! I've been asking for that for years!