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[โ€“] drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Didn't the homophobic moron who came up with JS literally name it that to confuse people into thinking it had something to do with Java?

I'm no friend of Oracle but that kind of just sounds like the birds coming home to roost.

[โ€“] brian@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

afaik the basis of it is just that sun/netscape developed js together initially, and sun got the trademark, which got passed on to oracle. not really related to the bad name