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Everyone uses “JavaScript” to describe a language. Oracle is a parasite.
by jennyholzer 1y ago
Everyone uses “JavaScript” to describe a language.
Oracle is a parasite.
- nailer 1y agoIf Oracle win we rename the language JS. JS stands for nothing.
- throwawayoldie 1y agoHow about OS, where the "S" now stands for "sucks", and the meaning of the "O" is left as an exercise for the reader.
- aleph_minus_one 1y agoThis will cause confusion with OS for "Open Source".
- throwawayoldie 1y agoAlso "Operating System". This is a feature, not a bug.
- AlienRobot 1y agoNo, we rename Javascript to Typelessscript.
- pavlov 1y agoTypescript--
- magicalhippo 1y ago.Net compiles to it's IL and who writes raw JavaScript these days anyway, so just call it JSIL.
- brian-armstrong 1y agoWe can just start calling it by its full Christian name, Eczemascript
- deleted 1y ago[deleted]
- jm4 1y agoHow about douche-named-Larry-script. Take a page out of Apple’s playbook when they used the code name Butthead Astronomer. https://www.engadget.com/2014-02-26-when-carl-sagan-sued-apple-twice.html https://www.engadget.com/2014-02-26-when-carl-sagan-sued-app...
- zakki 1y agoI guees we can use a name from island near Java. BaliScript, MaduraScript, KarimunScript and so on.
- Waterluvian 1y agoAren’t there laws about this? Where “Kleenex” becomes so universally }}]%^* )!;&
- 90s_dev 1y agoAnimal Well has an item called "flying disc" or something since Frisbee is TM. To google something has for decades for millenials meant search online in any way. Trademark law is dumb and inconvenient. Only people owning trademarks disagree. But so are many other laws. We all just have to follow them all anyway.
- sokoloff 1y agoTrademark law is what allows me as a consumer to buy a Coke and know I’ll get a Coke. I find that convenient, despite owning no trademarks.
- Waterluvian 1y agoThe benefits are so easily taken for granted as just being normal parts of life. Just like how we take for granted that you can count on your food label not lying to you and your food not having dangerous ingredients, with proper inspections and such.
- Timwi 1y agoBut it stops you from getting an equivalent coke from any other vendor, even if you might want to (because it might be cheaper). You're assuming that everyone finds it as important as you do that your “Coke” comes from a specific manufacturer regardless of what the product actually is or contains. For Coke you might be right about most people (though not me) but there are plenty of products where brand loyalty isn't a thing. People just want some decent hand tissues around, nobody cares if it's made by actual Kleenex.
- sokoloff 1y agoIf I want to, I can readily buy a cola from several other companies today, with trademark law as-is. I can get a Coke from only one. Are you arguing that I’d be somehow better off if any company could sell me an “equivalent” Coke, Toyota Camry, or iPhone?
- Fogest 1y agoHonestly, I had no idea JavaScript was even a trademarked name. I've always just assumed it's the name of a programming language and had no idea it had anything to do with Oracle. I guess I don't feel bad not knowing this though, as the language really does have nothing to do with the company it's insane that they even hold a trademark for it.
- josefx 1y agoJavaScript was created as a wrapper for Java Applets. Oracle optained both when it bought Sun. The official name of the language is ECMA Script, but people insist on calling it the trademarked name because ECMA makes people think of an unpleasent skin condition.