Maybe we should rename the colloquial name of the language, to give
clear signal to this kind of Javaist that Java should not have been
there at first place and JS is something else. To retain .js extension
it should be some J-word, like JumboScript, JiffyScript, JiveScript or
something like that.
Bradley Meck wrote:
Actually if you look up the history of JS it is only called "Java"Script
because Java was popular, it originally was called LiveScript but due to
political pressures it was named JavaScript.
The underpinning semantics of the language are vastly different, with
the ideas of first class functions, and mutable runtime designed classes
(via prototypes).
Those in minds, please read the history of EcmaScript,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg4e-2lBw5E has some details, but there
is much more around the internet.
I suggest the following:
1. Can you point to backwards compatibility breakages?
We wish to avoid that.
2. Can you point to which features you want in the language?
Once again, the underlying semantics of
http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm
(see section #4) differ vastly (and never refers to being a subset or
compatible with) Java.
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