time to let go of JQuery dependency

[jonasalmeida]

The reliance on old $.ajax and $.deferred patterns in JQuery is now supported natively by ES6 in any modern browser as fetch and Promises. Furthermore, modern asynchronous execution comes with the elegant async-await syntactic sugar. Can I convince you to update the corresponding code to remove the JQuery dependency? If not, I'd be happy to do it through a fork and pull request if I can be sure to have your attention while doing it 😃.

[cygnil]

Hi! I agree, the use of jQuery is vastly outdated. This is now a legacy package and we unfortunately aren't pouring very much into it in the way of support or maintenance. However, if you wanted to fork and create a pull request, I'd be more than happy to review it and incorporate it into the main branch.