Why did Underscore.js remove support for AMD?

Question

1.3.0 — Jan. 11, 2012 Removed AMD (RequireJS) support from Underscore. If you\'d like to use Underscore with RequireJS, you can load it as a normal script, w

Answer 1

Jeremy gave his reasoning in the comments of the commit:

Yep. Not supporting a particular script loader will definitely make it easier for all of them to work properly.

I apologize for merging the support in the first place.

He also tweeted a bit more on the change (link from a later comment):

… because AMD support is breaking regular Underscore embeds on pages that also happen to use Require.js …