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I'm not really happy to hear about this. To me, it demonstrates that the JS Foundation continues to focus on the wrong priorities. They've thoroughly neglected their stewardship responsibilities for a number of different open source projects. They've seen a reduction in sponsorship/funding for maintaining projects and they've pulled back from GSoC and other events that were essential in drawing in new open source contributors. On top of all that, they've piled on bureaucracy and alienated many important long-time contributors: https://github.com/globalizejs/globalize/pull/703 Despite their slogan "The Center of Gravity in the Javascript Ecosystem", these days, the JS Foundation is largely an irrelevant organization. I see this merge as a last ditch effort to retain some sort of relevancy. They've abandoned their roots as a center of innov

jQuery is still quite relevant and helpful. Despite the hype with newer libraries, jQuery is used on 73% of _all_ websites. https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/javascript_library... I often tell myself, ok, I'm going to just use vanilla JS for this one, but compared to jQuery, it's way too verbose. Try doing $('.my-elements').show() in vanilla js. The problem is the jQuery foundation has become too bureaucratic, making contributions harder. Example: https://github.com/globalizejs/globalize/pull/703