From experience, corporations usually don't give the general public any trademarked name. I assume TypeScript is trademarked right now; and I doubt Microsoft would ever liberate this. So in this regard, the corporations act in the same manner - selfish.

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onionisafruit 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

TFA says Microsoft offered the JScript trademark to be used in place of JavaScript, so there’s some indication of willingness to give up a trademark.

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Someone1234 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If browser makers offered to put it in the browser if the name is freed, I bet they could be convinced. The main problem right now, is that there isn't a major push to add TS to the browser.

	▲	giancarlostoro 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The way I'm proposing it, technically it would be to make JS and TS kind of the same thing, but not fully, as someone else mentioned the goal of TS is still to tell the user (developer) about issues before the code runs. However, if done right TS files still get interpreted like normal JS, and technically you would want to compile them and not put them in the browser "raw" but you could still call it TS.

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georgeecollins 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you can find the clip on you tube where he says it, it's even funnier. But sadly also true.

https://simonwillison.net