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It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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Re: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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Post by Lerc »

homebrewer wrote: post #23

Imagine if this effort was spent on solving more pressing problems, like the recent yet another security kerfuffle, or the overloaded maintainers whom everyone depends on but reliably fails to support. Call the language JS, everyone already understands it, it's used on all the logos because it's short, we already another popular language with a very compact name (Go, which is harder to look up without mangling its na…

>Imagine if this effort was spent on solving more pressing problems,

Are you suggesting that Ryan Dahl's contribution has been less than satisfactory so far?

Re: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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Post by DrScientist »

pansa2 wrote: post #18
siwatanejo wrote: post #3

I actually think that people should rather use EcmaScript name instead of JavaScript, because it's a way better name (much less confusing, given that this lang doesn't have anything to do with Java anyway). I wish Oracle started suing people to force everyone to use the better name.

> people should rather use EcmaScript name instead of JavaScript Or go back to calling it “LiveScript”

I'm not changing all the extensions on my files :-)

Just go with the flow - call it js.

Re: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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Post by DrScientist »

re-thc wrote: post #33
siwatanejo wrote: post #3

I actually think that people should rather use EcmaScript name instead of JavaScript, because it's a way better name (much less confusing, given that this lang doesn't have anything to do with Java anyway). I wish Oracle started suing people to force everyone to use the better name.

Switch everything natively to Typescript.

Last phase of embrace, extend, extinguish eh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

Re: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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Post by dsnr »

falcor84 wrote: post #22
siwatanejo wrote: post #3

I actually think that people should rather use EcmaScript name instead of JavaScript, because it's a way better name (much less confusing, given that this lang doesn't have anything to do with Java anyway). I wish Oracle started suing people to force everyone to use the better name.

But everyone already calls it JS. I think the transition would have been so much easier if the official name started with "J".

JabbaScript

Re: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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Post by GaryBluto »

karel-3d wrote: post #35

They now have GoFundMe where they are soliciting donations for a discovery phase of a patent trademark cancellation request. They have just 50k USD out of 200k USD they are raising. (No idea if that's appropriate; from the outside, it seems like a lot of money, but also they are fighting Oracle which has unlimited money, so, yeah) For some reason it's not linked in the page itself. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-…

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Re: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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Post by NuclearPM »

petre wrote: post #30
falcor84 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But everyone already calls it JS. I think the transition would have been so much easier if the official name started with "J".

Like JunoScript or JangoScript? JavaScript is just very outdated ECMAScript.

How is it outdated?

Re: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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Post by throwingrocks »

siwatanejo wrote: post #3

I actually think that people should rather use EcmaScript name instead of JavaScript, because it's a way better name (much less confusing, given that this lang doesn't have anything to do with Java anyway). I wish Oracle started suing people to force everyone to use the better name.

It’s simply not a better name. If it was, it would’ve caught on by now.

Re: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

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Post by arfar »

karel-3d wrote: post #35

They now have GoFundMe where they are soliciting donations for a discovery phase of a patent trademark cancellation request. They have just 50k USD out of 200k USD they are raising. (No idea if that's appropriate; from the outside, it seems like a lot of money, but also they are fighting Oracle which has unlimited money, so, yeah) For some reason it's not linked in the page itself. https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-…

Not to nit-pic, but it's a Trademark cancellation - not a patent. The confusion probably came from the fact it's before the US Patent and Trademark Office.
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