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one of my issues with jquery is the way it Doesn't Crash

like when my code has a mistake, i actually want it to fail, by default, and tell me why it failed so i can fix it.
jquery's style is more to silently smooth it out.
and it might make sense in some cases, but for development it's a waste of time.

if do this you get a type error
> document.getElementById('inexistent').style.color = '#666'

if you do this you get nothing
> $('#inexistent').css('color', '#666')

it might sound nice to unify the idea of "one object" and "many object" but it might actually be a terrible idea

i think jquery is onto a nice idea with their accidental attempt to make javascript declarative, but also that they ended up making something worse than vanilla javascript somehow