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<div class="grid--cell mb0 mt8">Closed <span title="2011-11-08 22:24:37Z" class="relativetime">8 years ago</span>.</div>
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What is going to end up to be the toolkit of choice for Ajax development? I've been working with Ajax for several years now and it appears that every year a new toolkit gets attention and appears to become the one to go with. I started out with just using plain XHR, then GWT, then jQuery, now YUI. Everytime I go to a new shop they are using something else. Are we going to end up with lots of toolkits like we have now in five years?
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People have different needs, and prefer different approaches for javascript applications, so different toolkits makes sense.
I personally prefer to just write my own, as I find that I work around limitations in the toolkits, or they are much larger than what I need, so something minimal is helpful.
In unix there are many different shells to use, there are many editors for writing code, so why not have several toolkits.
Competition is good, otherwise the winner will get lazy and start to become obsolete.
I doubt we will standardize, programmers tend not to anyway, so why expect them to change.