Is jQuery considered to be outdated? [closed]

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This may be an open and close case but may open some debate. I was speaking with my friend recently who said to me "jQuery is so 2008" Now w开发者_运维知识库hile I don't pretend to know a whole lot about this language (Or JavaScript for that matter), I have used both for projects that I have done in the past. So my question is, is this framework still widely used? Are there newer more "2011" frameworks?

I see that this may be a daft question, as different frameworks have different uses but I have seen a lot of large companies have used jQuery on their site which leads me to believe that of course it has its uses (as does any other language).

What's the general consensus among designers/developers? Is it outdated? Is it still widely used in industry?

EDIT: The reason I ask this is because all the time I've searched for things jQuery related the articles that come up first seem to be dated back a few years...

Another EDIT: Thanks for your points, I think his reason for thinking it was outdated was maybe because the company he worked for didn't use it. Maybe THEY were outdated?!

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Your friend is speaking out of total ignorance, and probably just uses whatever was invented within the past 6 months in order to feel "hip" and "cool".

jQuery is still widely used. jQuery is still frequently updated (in fact there was a major release just last month). jQuery is not "outdated".

(In 2008, jQuery was on 1.2.x, which is outdated.)

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Is the development team active? Is it widely used? Does it adapt to best practices as they are discovered? Is it bringing new functionality that is making it more valuable to developers?

If you can answer yes to these then there's a good chance it isn't outdated because it is constantly being enhanced.

Your friend sounds like a diva.