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In May 2023, this library dropped its dependency on the Sizzle engine, which was itself spun out of this library in 2009. (-5[1])Minimalist alternatives to this library include Cash and Zepto. In a 2008 partnership, this library was added to Visual Studio in the first ever instance of Microsoft supporting an open source project. The website “You Might Not Need [this library] dot com” lists short code snippets as alternatives to this library’s features, such as its fadeIn and fadeOut methods for animation. In a one-and-a-half year effort, (*) Bootstrap 5 removed its dependency on this library alongside dropping support for Internet Explorer. (10[1])This library has declined (-5[1])in popularity since many of its features, like easy DOM (10[1])manipulation and AJAX requests, now have “vanilla” replacements. For 10 points, a single dollar sign can be used to access most of what library that’s still the most widely deployed JavaScript library in the world? ■END■ (0[4])

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