This PR is massive and represents a year and a half of work. If you look at the comments you see there are loads of browser-specific issues being fixed. IE support was dropped as they didn't feel making stuff compatible (jQuery did that for them before).
The API is also incompatible; in the words of one dev: "we broke everything".
As one of the commenters pointed out, a lot of stuff was copied from jQuery to make it work.
In other words, this entire effort seems of dubious benefit to me. Whereas before it was "jQuery for EVERYTHING", now it seems to be the reverse: "remove jQuery from EVERYTHING", which is equally silly. jQuery does a lot of useful stuff, and al things considered remains a pretty neat project. It shouldn't be used for everything, but spending loads of time in removing it just because it's no longer the kwel fr4m3wr0k of teh week just seems like a waste of effort.
The API is also incompatible; in the words of one dev: "we broke everything".
As one of the commenters pointed out, a lot of stuff was copied from jQuery to make it work.
In other words, this entire effort seems of dubious benefit to me. Whereas before it was "jQuery for EVERYTHING", now it seems to be the reverse: "remove jQuery from EVERYTHING", which is equally silly. jQuery does a lot of useful stuff, and al things considered remains a pretty neat project. It shouldn't be used for everything, but spending loads of time in removing it just because it's no longer the kwel fr4m3wr0k of teh week just seems like a waste of effort.