"Do you really need jQuery?"

[Schamper]

I actually read about that site before the blog post, and later that day also saw this: You will probably need jQuery
Interesting stuff

[julian]

Assuming you're talking about my blog post from this morning?

Nice find. I had a nice wake up call awhile back when I applied to a job as a javascript developer and found out that I didn't know the basics of javascript (I'd been using Mootools exclusively before then)! That's when I started really getting into Javascript.

[Schamper]

@julian yep, talking about that one. I've actually done some testing with a web app I developed on the performance between jQuery and vanilla JS. It's only sometimes that vanilla is really faster. (I did manage to get one jQuery routine from about 300ms to ~14ms with vanilla JS though!)