Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle

Was thinking the same. Not only would shifting industry to ECMAScript or something else get around trademark nonsense, but now that I think about it I do hear non-techy manager types get confused to this day and call it Java. Also seems like time is right as less is done in plain JavaScript- it’s Typescript, React, framework du jour, WASM. I guess the hard part is convincing an industry to use a different word.

This seems a bit like poking the bear. A loss here could give Oracle carte blanche to start going after people for using "JavaScript" anywhere.

So does COBOL.

Change it to EllisonScript

Fortran is pretty great:

* First-class tensor manipulations (like numpy but in the core language)

* Fast math with the right compiler

* Automatically sized multi dimensional arrays on the stack

* Zero cost C interop

* Minimal runtime, no GC, compiles to small programs

* Generics

* Coarray based parallelism in the core language

Sure it has issues but if you want to write fast numerical code and don’t want to bundle 2GB of pytorch or however big the Julia standard library is, or you want to make a small library with a C API, it’s a pretty great language. There are 50 year old libraries that still work perfectly (and much faster than they did then!) You won’t get that kind of longevity out of Rust ndarray.