It's a lot more verbose and less powerful.
I mean, the http://youmightnotneedjquery.com site reads like a parody even in 2021.
I mean, the http://youmightnotneedjquery.com site reads like a parody even in 2021.
I prefer the DOM API in each example, save for examples that are clearly out of date to support old versions of IE without a polyfill (e.g. all the AJAX examples at the top can use fetch, other can use Object.assign, no use of the iterator interface anywhere, etc)
It takes twice as much typing without the chainable, unix pipe like API. I really don't get it, but I've been baffled by this industry's decision for more than a decade.