unwieldycat

joined 1 year ago

has JavaScript lied to us ? in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] unwieldycat@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It was initially called "LiveScript", but since Java applets were really popular at the time of its creation, they went with "JavaScript" instead to get attention.

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