Zepto is described as “a minimalist JavaScript library with a largely jQuery-compatible API.” Developers who know jQuery already know how to use Zepto, its makers go on to say.

With the Google API, there would be no network hit at all. The browser could have the IP addresses for the libraries and other often-called developer resources available to avoid DNS hits.

There's the side who says that modularization is going too far when developers are creating libraries that only account for a few lines of code, for the most trivial of operations.

Everyone knows that writing programs that exploit the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) in your computer’s video card requires special arcane tools, right? Well, thanks to [Matthew Saw], [Fazil … ...