If you could rename JavaScript to be more self descriptive...

What would you call it?

Comments

[Chris Geiger 🌍🌐]

WebScript. Or maybe better DynaScript? (dynamic but also sometimes as dangerous as dynamite ;)

[Avalander]

I actually like a lot its original working title Mocha, I wish they had kept it. Even though it's not particularly descriptive, at least it's honest about not having anything to do with Java.

[Kevin]

WTFScript... "why it is doing this"

[Stephen Chiang]

Black Magic!

[Sergey Telpuk]

TypeScript

[Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen]

• Paradigm-agnostic application language
• Developer-forgiving interpreted language
• With great power comes great responsibility

[Farid Aditya]

InterfaceScript

[Garador]

AnyScript... Cuz it's lack of rigidity kinda allows you to make pretty much anything.

[Antonio Radovcic]

MoneyMoneyMoneyScript

[gyorgygutai]

Java

[buphmin]

BrowserScript...ah crap nodejs. Let's call it AES asynchronous event script :)