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I'm well aware of this.
Then you recognize the comparison was fallacious and therefore irrelevant.
drawing parallels in development pitfalls
That's worse. You really think the types of problems one might face using a compiled strictly typed low-level language are at all similar to those found in an interpreted scripting language run in a web browser?
And another thing: jQuery isn't even an extension to the language (again, you seem to be unclear as what Javascript even is). jQuery is an library designed to access, control, and animate the DOM in a manner that is consistent among platforms. Are you really going to tell me that C programmers don't use libraries?