YUI vs. jQuery vs. Prototype vs. Scriptaculous?

[Specks]

Hey guys,

I started to use Ext independent of any framework (or at least I haven't used any library other than Ext intentionally) . As I work with it more and get more advanced with Javascript and programing applications that have Ajax in it. I'm starting to get curious about the different adapters that are available. Could you please share your experience with using these frameworks? Especially if you have used more than one. How is jQuery compared to YUI compared to Prototype and Scriptaculos? What are their pros and cons? How does using the adapter for any of these libraries affect the Ext library?

Specks

[RWaters]

I've used most of the various libraries, and a couple of them with Ext and the adapters. You'll find that each tends to have very minor differences and perhaps issues, there's quite a bit of discussion on this in the forums.

At this point I would recommend to anyone that you use Ext base unless you already have a pre-existing system with one of the other frameworks. This is currently the smallest, and in general there's not much difference feature wise that you would get from the others...

You could always alias $ to be Ext.get ;)