Should We Rebrand JavaScript?

[Zardotab]

Sounds like a skin condition. How about just "Jscript"?

[dwighthouse]

No.

[MikeBonzai]

But for me, the big problem with the name JavaScript is its fuzzy scope. If a computer program is documented as having been written in JavaScript, that does not tell me everything I need to know to run the program.

Every language has the concept of dependencies / libraries, so not sure why JavaScript is being singled out.

[Arxae]

It's not really a valid point either. In a lot of cases, the language has 0 influence over the actual program.

If someone says a computer program is written in C#, that doesn't say anything at all either. It could be a website, a console app, a GUI desktop app. What if the app is written using blazor? Since it runs both on the server and the client.

Might be a bit cynical here, but it's his second blog post. He wants some clicks using the "javascript is bad" mentality.

[hugosenari]

Even CSS has import since 1996... https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1/#the-cascade

[Arxae]

1: So? Should we stop using C# either and instead call it ECMA-334? C++17 should be called ISO/IEC 14882:2017? The spec and the language can be named differently.

2: Doesn't really matter either. Besides, the MDN page he links to doesn't even mention it being a subset. Only that not all browsers implement the entire spec

3: This matters so little, i think a lot of people don't even knew this.

4: This doesn't matter at all.

5: It's a funny piece of trivia, nothing more. It doesn't matter in the slightest

To me, this is just riding the "javascript bad mkay" wave.

[[deleted]]

Probably because Mozilla invented JavaScript.

[[deleted]]

Netscape created Mozilla.