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Stephen Chiang
Stephen Chiang

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If you could rename JavaScript to be more self descriptive...

What would you call it?

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Chris Geiger 🌍🌐 β€’

WebScript. Or maybe better DynaScript? (dynamic but also sometimes as dangerous as dynamite ;)

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Avalander β€’ β€’ Edited

I actually like a lot its original working title Mocha, I wish they had kept it. Even though it's not particularly descriptive, at least it's honest about not having anything to do with Java.

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Sergey Telpuk β€’

TypeScript

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Kevin β€’

WTFScript... "why it is doing this"

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Stephen Chiang β€’

Black Magic!

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Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen β€’
  • Paradigm-agnostic application language
  • Developer-forgiving interpreted language
  • With great power comes great responsibility
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Garador β€’

AnyScript... Cuz it's lack of rigidity kinda allows you to make pretty much anything.

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Antonio Radovcic β€’

MoneyMoneyMoneyScript

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Farid Aditya β€’

InterfaceScript

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buphmin β€’

BrowserScript...ah crap nodejs. Let's call it AES asynchronous event script :)

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Mohammed Samgan Khan β€’

BSS: browserSideScript