Surprised by the amount of mentions of ECMAScript here. It’s the worst possible name to me.

People everywhere saying ecma script is a bad name feels like oracle hired people to hate on the best alternative so that demo keeps "fighting the fight" and make oracle lawyers more rich.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with sound of ecma script (maybe it's just a bit difficult on the tongue?). And not, it doesn't read like eczema, there's absolutely nothing related with that name other than the first two and last characters, reading one and the other they are completely different. It doesn't make sense to say they are similar. Stop with the astroturfing.

Everyone I see hating on ecma script simply say it's a bad name without argumenting or say it's similar to eczema, are we 12 now?

Potentially it could cause confusion between the spec and the language. But tbh I think the mistake was to create that differentiation in the first place. Let's just join these two together and there'll be no more head scratching of what is what.

Exactly. I would just rename it to something nicer and forget about Java - it has very little to do with it nowadays anyway. A new name can even retain .js extensions like: JetScript, JoyScript, JuiceScript, JadeScript, JunoScript, whatever...

I vote we rename it MOCHAScript, which is my favorite coffee beverage.

ECMAScript comes from the spec for JavaScript, which makes sense.

Sounds like eczema :(

ECMAScript is the base language.

Javascript is that base + a layer on top .. 'navigator' object, etc.

It won't be called anything other than EcmaScript because there are already millions of references to that name.

meh.

'Java' script was a ridiculous choice which has lead to much confusion.

For all I care it could be called mozillascript (would be historically more 'correct')

otoh anything Oracle wants is bad by default so...

Care to state why?