It acquired its current name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) changed its name to reflect the organization’s global reach and activities. As a consequence, the name is no longer considered an acronym and no longer uses full capitalization.
Yeah, for a short time there the word ‘java’ was very ‘in’. Marketing hipsters at the time wanted to use it in everything, just like the word ‘AI’ now.
Can Oracle kill javascript as well, please? Please?
JavaScript’s real name is ECMAScript.
https://tc39.es/
ECMA by Ecma?
Ahh, needed Wiki:
no, they’re completely unrelated, some devs liked the name java and put it into the name of the new language they were working on, nothing beyond that
Yeah, for a short time there the word ‘java’ was very ‘in’. Marketing hipsters at the time wanted to use it in everything, just like the word ‘AI’ now.
No, I know that – I honestly want them both to die :p
Both have been a blight on software development for decades.
I don’t have a problem with Java, and you can get Oracle free versions of Java.
JavaScript on the other hand is a blight as you say.
You can get blight free versions of JavaScript too, if you use TypeScript.
Java is to Javascript what car is to carpet or somesuch
Why would a car have a pet?