[Catalyst] Re: OT: JS no longer sucks, (was Catalyst - any good AJAX tutes?)

[Ash Berlin]

On 8 Mar 2009, at 15:18, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:

> * Ashley <apv at sedition.com> [2009-03-07 22:20]:
>> I used to feel the same about JS. The language itself has improved
>
> Objection:
>
> * <http://fishbowl.pastiche.org/2009/02/20/the_dom_stigma/>
>> When recommending jQuery to co-workers, friends, random
>> passers-by and the occasional hobo (as I have been wont to do
>> recently) I have tended to summarize its merit as “it makes
>> Javascript not suck.” Which is rubbish. Javascript has always
>> been perfectly cromulent. What jQuery does is make the DOM API
>> not suck.
>
> Regards,
> -- 
> Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>

Counter-objection: The DOM is not the JS language.