I’m a big fan of Javascript frameworks that help me get things done, I’m a huge fan of anything that helps me get things done easier. My favourite framework though is jQuery after having tried a few just over a year ago I settled on jQuery as a better choice than Prototype and thankfully I’ve been proven right.

John Resig, the creator of jQuery is also a bit of a proponent for another framework called MochiKit. The idea of MochiKit is to “Make Javascript Suck Less” and as such doesn’t really offer many out there features that others might, it more concentrates on filling in functionality gaps that are present in the Javascript language.

These things include better comparator functions, which enable sorting and so on, also there are handy formatting functions, asynchronous functions and data functions for handling JSON. DOM manipulation looks to be very good, though whether it’s easier than jQuery is probably up to personal choice. Basically MochiKit seems to fill in the gaps of Javascript and do exactly what it says it does, make programming with Javascript suck less by giving you the functions you always wished you had.

I plan on checking this out and feel like it’s probably a worth addition to anybodys’ toolbox that is writing client side code.