When I read your message the first thing that goes through my mind is "here's a person who wants to be using the tool with the most hype". I realize I could be wrong on that, but really, shouldn't we be evaluating if the tool does what we need and has support, rather than if it has "hype"?
For myself, I've tried Prototype, and looked at others. jQuery works the way I need it to, and basically gets out of my way and lets me code my apps with little fuss. So, I'll be using jQuery for years to come. Regardless of what the hype cycle is at. This list isn't going away. And even if it did, there's the #jQuery channel on IRC. And even if THAT went away, there's the #javascript channel on IRC where some excellent coders know enough about Javascript and even jQuery to probably help out. So, in terms of support, well that's not going away either. So I'm comfortable with my choice to stick with jQuery for the foreseeable future. As for an active list.. well, I have 6951 messages in my jQuery folder (which is for this list only) since 1 Sep 2007. And I just finished deleting a few thousand more from beforehand. How much more active can the list get?? :) HTH. Shawn herbasher wrote: > I read somewhere that the jQuery mailing list was supposed to be > really active. I haven't really seen a sign of that, which makes me > wonder. > > Has the community seen it's days? > > Is it a safe bet to develop with jQuery - will it be supported for a > couple of years by an active community? > > > > Thanks, > Herb >