Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle
14 comments
·September 19, 2025siva7
I can't be the only one who believes the name JavaScript should die in Peace. It was and still is the worst naming of any popular programming language in existence.
glimshe
What should someone do if they believe that both Oracle and JavaScript are among the worst things that ever happened to computing?
donohoe
Learn ASP or VBA and embrace true suffering
CharlieDigital
ASP could be written in JScript and was the OG JavaScript SSR.
In some ways, easier to understand and better than anything we have now.
re-thc
Go back to pen and paper.
scandox
Oracle is like the magic word that makes me want to give money to causes. Which I rarely do or wish to do.
billpg
I kinda want Oracle to go further and insist that no-one can call it "JavaScript" any more. Let's all it "JS" and completely break from Java.
"What does JS stand for?" "It stands for itself."
Keyframe
Let's all it "JS" and completely break from Java
or, you know, its alter ego ECMAScript? ES for short.
siva7
What's the point? Move on to Typescript and just call it TS. I never got the hang out of why people tend to add "-script" to the the name of a programming language like it's 1995.
deadbabe
Should we truly donate or do we have no chance in hell? Seems like we are not in the right political climate to score a win here.
whizzter
Personally we should start using EcmaScript that is after all the actual language standard and stop letting Oracle let Java have a free popularity ride on EcmaScript's back.
NooneAtAll3
tbf, with how long these court cases go... result will be decided by next or even after-next political force
staticelf
Awesome cause Deno, of course I'll help.
Can’t deno afford $200k without any help?