Aaron Newton comparing two very popular JavaScript frameworks:
jQuery focuses on expressiveness, quick and easy coding, and the DOM while MooTools focuses on extension, inheritance, legibility, reuse, and maintainability. If you put those two things on opposite sides of a scale, the jQuery side translates into something with which it’s easy to get started and see quick results but (in my experience) can turn into code that’s harder to reuse and maintain (but really that’s up to you; it’s not jQuery’s problem, per se), while the MooTools side takes longer to learn and requires you to write more code upfront before you see results, but afterwards is more reusable and more maintainable.
For me, I decided on jQuery a while back and we’ve opted to do the same at Wall St. We’ll see if jQuery stands up to the maintainability test over time, but for now, I contend, the library is giving way to faster and better development.
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