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It's a shame that jQuery was included within "What frameworks other than Angular 1.x do you use regularly today? (choose multiple)". Why not throw lodash/underscore in too?

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I can kind of see how jQuery + mainstream jQuery usage patterns would get grandfathered in as a sort of ad hoc, primordial framework.

Because they are libraries, not frameworks.

And jQuery is... surprise! A library.

It does have some framework properties, like the whole plugin mechanism.

That barely qualifies imo. The plugin mechanism is just prototypical inheritance - you're just adding methods to a prototype, nothing more.

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