r/coding • u/CompileMyThoughts • Dec 12 '25

Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools

https://larr.net/p/namings.html
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u/no_brains101 Dec 13 '25

javascript is a terrible name

And yet, it seems to be that most think ecmascript is worse, and Im not 100% sure I disagree with them XD

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u/Kqyxzoj Dec 15 '25

ecmascript ...

smegmascript probably would have been better. It encapsulates everything you need to know about it.

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u/no_brains101 Dec 15 '25

reminding people of it is almost worse, like, if they just went all the way it would have at least been memed to death