• drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    4 hours ago

    Didn’t the homophobic moron who came up with JS literally name it that to confuse people into thinking it had something to do with Java?

    I’m no friend of Oracle but that kind of just sounds like the birds coming home to roost.

    • brian@programming.dev
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      42 minutes ago

      afaik the basis of it is just that sun/netscape developed js together initially, and sun got the trademark, which got passed on to oracle. not really related to the bad name

  • LiveLM@lemmy.zip
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    12 hours ago

    Just fork it under a different name? The JS ecosystem is already a clusterfuck anyway

    Not supporting Oracle btw. Fuck them, I hope they lose.

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      46 minutes ago

      yeah uuh, that’s ecmascript, the official name of the thing people call js. but everyone still knows it as js. oracle doesn’t have any ownership of the language spec. this is purely trying to make the name trademark public

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    No. None of this shit matters, just use a different language. There’s bucketfuls.

    Group identity with a computer fucking language that exists to perform a replicable function is just unhinged tribalism.