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Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
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Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
#282save your money and pick a better name than javascript
Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
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We can also call it ECMAScript. I always try to refer to it as ES instead of JS in professional coding context.
Apparently people don't like the name "ECMA" because it's too close to "Eczema" which is a nasty dry/itchy skin problem. And I agree, because I have it too.
It looks too much like "Acme" so it gets confused as a joke about cartoons. It looks too much like "acne", that is a too common skin problem, and it looks too much like "eczema" that is a rarer nasty-looking skin problem.
Whoever created that name should get a prize.
Anyway, the community not adopting that brand doesn't mean one can't rebrand JS.
Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
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It does seem that rebranding would just fix the problem. I don’t really understand why the name is worth fighting over.
Didn’t we try that experiment already with ECMAScript? Have you met anyone using it? Me neither. I can’t wait for the “well actually” comments.
I'm not even sure how to correctly say ECMAScript out loud.
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I also desperately want deno to succeed cause it’s just the best way to work with typescript. I have a strong personal interest in working with deno instead of node in the future. At my company a lot of internal stuff is built with deno. Nothing mission critical but lots of utilities and stuff. But new services are still node, which is basically fine cause all of the complex config is handled already. But all of that…
> because jest My life is much better for having switched to vitest
Same. Vitest is beautiful
Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
We can also call it ECMAScript. I always try to refer to it as ES instead of JS in professional coding context.
Apparently people don't like the name "ECMA" because it's too close to "Eczema" which is a nasty dry/itchy skin problem. And I agree, because I have it too.
> And I agree, because I have it too.
Eczema or ECMaScript?
Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
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Thank God they didn't. Java could be another abandoned Google project now. OTOH I don't think anybody can say anything bad about what Oracle did and is doing with Java.
Really? Try changing licensing terms every few years until their current commercial license requires paying for every employee whether they use Java or not. The world would be a much better place if Google had googled Java twenty years ago.
If you’re not using OpenJDK, you brought this on yourself.
Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
#288what if everyone agrees to call it JavaZcript, start an online campaign to inform everyone of the reason, and let Oracle fume in the madness of its greed?
Script is not a problem. It’s “Java” that is trademarked.
Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
#289Adopt TS as official browser language and kill JS. Since JS is valid TS, it will be literally a drop in replacement. Easy peasy.
Re: Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not “JS”? Then we can all take sides in a religious war on whether it’s pronounced jay-ess, jayce, juss, or jess?
It’s pronounced gay-ess. Just like GIF.
Sorry, this seriously is an honest question: Is there a typo in your post? Otherwise I must come to the conclusion that you suggest pronouncing JS as 'jiss'.