JQuery - Should I use it?

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Re: JQuery - Should I use it?

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I know this is kind of a thread necro, but I thought this might interest you guys.

I've learned a LOT about javascript in the past few months because I've been converting an old game made in 1958 into an online game that my friends and I could play. It's now very easy for me to mess with ajax, traverse the dom and do things to it, and so on and so forth. Today, I decided to start a new project, and I thought that since I'm pretty comfortable with javascript, I might as well try out JQuery. I've been playing with it for about 2 hours now and... wow. I could code all this stuff on my own, but JQuery has made it ridiculously easy. Ridiculously. One of the main reasons I haven't coded these things is the prohibitive amount of time it takes... and I can now do this stuff in a fraction of the time.

I'm glad I took a few months to really learn javascript... it means that if I can't figure out how to do it with JQuery (or whatever library I use) I _could_ code it by hand. However, the massive productivity increase is almost making me giddy, and I'll never go back to the way I used to do things.
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