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I kinda want Oracle to go further and insist that no-one can call it "JavaScript" any more. Let's all it "JS" and completely break from Java. "What does JS sta
by billpg 1y ago
I kinda want Oracle to go further and insist that no-one can call it "JavaScript" any more. Let's all it "JS" and completely break from Java.
"What does JS stand for?" "It stands for itself."
- Keyframe 1y agoLet's all it "JS" and completely break from Java or, you know, its alter ego ECMAScript? ES for short.
- lagniappe 1y agoNobody likes that name, stop
- davey48016 1y agoI don't like it, but I dislike it less than I dislike the name JavaScript.
- ranguna 1y agoI like it. Maybe some people don't like it.
- lagniappe 1y agoI said stop
- siva7 1y agoWhat's the point? Move on to Typescript and just call it TS. I never got the hang out of why people tend to add "-script" to the the name of a programming language like it's 1995.
- skylurk 1y ago"What doesn't it stand for? It stands for commitment. It stands for audacity. It stands for courage in the face of..."
- throw567 1y ago[dead]
- ecshafer 1y agophp stands for php hyper processing. js could stand for js script.
- schwartzworld 1y agoReminds me of the urban legend that KFC couldn't legally call itself Kentucky Fried Chicken because they were using genetically modified hens that had no heads, hence the name change to just initials.
- hk1337 1y ago"What does JS stand for?" "Because it can't sit down! rimshot"