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Wasm, per footnote 1: > A contraction of “WebAssembly”, not an acronym, hence not using all-caps.
by treetalker 1y ago
Wasm, per footnote 1:
> A contraction of “WebAssembly”, not an acronym, hence not using all-caps.
- esperent 1y agoShouldn't it be WAsm in that case?
- jmull 1y agoI would say no. There aren't any particular rules about contractions and intermediate capitalization so we are free to choose. WAsm is more awkward than Wasm so the latter seems better.
- pseudosavant 1y agoI'm not sure. But I think we could use a new bike shed? I think it should be orange.
- shellac 1y agoNot that you have to use all caps for acronyms, e.g. scuba, radar, laser.
- andybak 1y agoI would maybe argue that used to be acronyms but now are just... well, words.
- strogonoff 1y agoIt’s one thing to take an acronym and “demote” it to a common noun if it’s being used often by wide public (not unlike how proper nouns become common nouns), it’s another thing to randomly pretend that a regular noun is an acronym. I’m looking at you, photographers shouting “RAW” in all caps whenever the topic comes up. “WASM” rubs me wrong for the same reason. I admit to being guilty of this and mimicking whatever form I encounter first, but then I’d switch once I look it up. I don’t quite understand why would anyone do otherwise.
- klysm 1y agoGood luck lol
- ziml77 1y agoBut isn't assembly often abbreviated as ASM? I think WASM appropriately follows from that, even if capitalizing ASM in the first place was an odd thing for people to do.