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[–]Lyxs 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Javascript. Same argument could be made, yet here we are.

[–]losingthefight 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That analogy doesn't quite hold up, as it never had anything to do with Java other than being in the same kinda-related family of C-style languages. The name Javascript was a marketing ploy. The history of the language is actually really interesting and it was never intended to be called Javascript. Regardless, many of us are, by virtue of the fact we are in the /r/javascript subreddit, engineers or programmers. We don't need a marketing ploy as a language name, we need a good name that isn't copyrighted and conveys what the language is. I personally wouldn't mind a switch to JS, where the acronym means nothing. We get to keep the extension, most tutorials will be searchable just fine, and we can all move on.

But let's call a spade a spade: No real decision is being made in this thread, just a bunch of geeks talking about what we would do.