jQuery is lighter (and often easier to use) than Prototype, but it doesn’t have as rich of a set of functions. That’s why I’m intrigued by Underscore:
Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It’s the tie to go along with jQuery’s tux.
Underscore provides 44-odd functions that support both the usual functional suspects: map, select, invoke — as well as more specialized helpers…
Not that every site needs one more framework, mind you, but there are select places where I can see this being useful.
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