What Douglas Crockford thinks about JavaScript

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American programmer and writer; specified JSON, wrote JavaScript: The Good Parts, JSLint and How JavaScript Works.

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1. 27 May 2023

   Our readingWeb developers should drop front-end libraries and use the DOM with plain JavaScript.

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   Their wordsSince then, the web standards community has, for the most part, corrected many of WC3's failures. The DOM is much less deficient and much more portable and reliable. That is why I now recommend abandoning the libraries, which have grown into bloated platforms, and instead using the DOM and plain old JavaScript together.

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