JavaScript and Market Share?!
It’s kind of strange to speak about JavaScript libraries and market share, so lets called it “popularity”. Have you ever been interested on which is the most famous JS library.
I’d guess everybody has the answer in his head, right? jQuery is becoming for the JS community something like Google for the web or IE6 on the browser’s market in the beginning of the century. How odd?!
However here’s a short list of who’s first.
1. Robert Nyman’s poll:
Note: original poll page’s here.
Clear enough jQuery rocks. As I personally use jQuery I still think that its success is based on his easy to start nature. However lets see another result chart.
2. Chris Coyier from http://css-tricks.com is showing almost the same result:
Note: original poll can be found here.
3. Finally Polldaddy’s hosting a poll, where the results are even more interesting.
Note: original source of the poll.
From these results I get more surprised not so much from the jQuery big advantage, but more from YUI. It’s a really very very powerful JavaScript library, perhaps misunderstood maybe because of it’s native complexity, don’t know?!
hi stoimen,
don’t be surprised at all. im working on a project that uses both jquery and mootools and the difference is obvious, as you say jquery is easy to start with.
balbir
@balbir – nice, as it appears jQuery is wining the battle I hope this will lead to massive improvements on all libraries in their future releases.
I’m surprised to from results for YUI
@vesselin – indeed, strange enough!
yui rulez, jquery sucks