This article makes for an interesting read. Here follow two early paragraphs for context:
Oracle controls the JavaScript trademark because in 2009 it acquired Sun Microsystems, which applied to trademark the name with the US Patent and Trademark Office back in 1995. The trademark was granted in 2000.
While the database giant does not use the name for any commercial products, its ownership of the trademark has led JavaScript-oriented organizations such as events biz JSConf to adopt branding that avoids the term. As the signatories to the letter observe, the world’s most popular programming language therefore can’t have a conference that mentions what it’s about.
Toward the end, the article mentions an initiative to legally pursue Oracle for trademark abandonment.
If it’s such a problem, maybe we just collectively move on to ES or TypeScript nomenclature?
Typescript and JavaScript are different languages and the distinction is important, especially because the two are used in conjunction with each other.
Yeah but why would you ever use javascript instead of typescript.
Don’t answer that. 😂
For an application? Never. I’d still use it for something very small like a build script where the hassle of separate compile and run stages makes the whole thing a hassle to use. That might change now, though, since I think Node has gained the ability to execute Typescript directly.
Just call it Ecmascript and be done with it. The name JavaScript was misleading from the beginning. Well, Ecma sounds like a skin disease but who cares.
but then we have a massive problem that affects millions of people if we call it EcmaScript. POJO becomes POEO, which violates English. Anyone speaking or writing English is negatively affected by the change from POJO to POEO. We should definitely pay Oracle billions of dollars to avoid confusing people about whether it’s POI-oh or POYO… keep it POJO.
I could believe that a man could build a suit using arc energy technology. And I could believe that man could use that energy to kill aliens from outer space.
But I could not believe that same man would ever use Oracle Cloud for his compute.
Literally made Iron Man unwatchable.
The only thing worse than Oracle are Oracle sales people.
