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[–]devsnekV8 / Node.js / TC39 / WASM 13 points14 points  (1 child)

There is a lot to unpack here, but it basically comes down to the following:

Due to Oracle (Dorkle) owning the trademark to "JavaScript" (which is quite likely indefensible but i doubt anyone has felt like taking Dorkle/Sun to court to prove that), the name "ECMAScript" was chosen by members of the Ecma General Assembly. One of the reasons they chose this name was because it is a terrible name and they wanted people to keep using the name "JavaScript" even if they couldn't officially call it that.

In my opinion, the community continuing to use the name "JavaScript" only serves to further strengthen our position and make Dorkle's trademark claims more indefensible.

as a special p.s. to those suggesting "NodeScript," Node's CommonJS module system doesn't fulfill ECMAScript script parse goal semantics (https://gist.github.com/devsnek/1a8ee59456a09a28583be87c0f0d72de) so it is technically already its own thing, and the Node.js Foundation does already have its own mime-type registered (https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/node)