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Cash's maintainer here. I don't think this is true actually. Zepto supports some methods that Cash doesn't, but you probably shouldn't use them to begin with, like $.ajax, $.isArray, $.fn.animate etc. In 2022 either better built-in solutions exist or better specialized tiny libraries exist. Everything that is supported by both Zepto and Cash should either work identically or Cash's implementation should be closer to…
Umbrella JS maintainer here (the library this HN thread is supposed to be about). At 2.8kb gzipped UmbrellaJS doesn't support partial builds because that'd be a bit funny. Also, and it seems to be something the author of the article likes a lot, Umbrella JS is closer to Javascript than the libraries you mention (& jQuery). Sure that means you need a bit of editing your code (which is made easy by being able to load b…
Articles can absolutely just be seeds for discussion, and I think the theme of replacing jQuery is quite relevant across the industry as motivators like "support IE" are increasingly falling away.