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Oracle, it’s time to free JavaScript (javascript.tm)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/javascript

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The industry could easily switch to calling it ECMAScript.

You have long ago abandoned the JavaScript trademark, and it is causing widespread, unwarranted confusion and disruption.

JavaScript is the world’s most popular programming language, powering websites everywhere. Yet, few of the millions who program in it realize that JavaScript is a trademark you, Oracle, control. The disconnect is glaring: JavaScript has become a general-purpose term used by countless individuals and companies, independent of any Oracle product.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

[...] it was decided that the language would be called “ECMAScript” instead. (Microsoft happily offered up “JScript”, but no-one else wanted that.) Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and a co-signatory of this letter, wrote in 2006 that “ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease.”

I tend to agree with these sentiments

[–] Kissaki 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

sounds like a skin disease.”

I mean… it does occasionally make my skin crawl

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, sure, just as easily as people switched from saying "Twitter" to saying "X"

[–] Kissaki 6 points 2 months ago

lol, the T-shirt with the trademark text paragraphs

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

@neme I think it'd be fine if we gave up on JavaScript instead of asking Larry for something.