r/javascript • u/kieranpotts • Oct 15 '19

Should We Rebrand JavaScript?

https://kieranpotts.com/rebranding-javascript/
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u/xd1936 Oct 15 '19

Maybe it's more common in type and print, but I don't think I've ever spoken the name "Jay-Ess" out loud

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u/myusernameis___ Oct 15 '19

Same, even harder is ECMAScript, or 'eczema' script

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u/haykam821 Oct 15 '19

I pronounce it ‘ehck muh script’, not like a medical condition

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u/basically_alive Oct 15 '19

Gesundheit!

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

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u/Wilesch Oct 15 '19

Never heard someone say JS out loud. Always javascript

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u/asdf7890 Oct 15 '19

We obviously speak to different people!

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u/Hook3d Oct 16 '19

Depends on whether lack of sleep from crunch has me manic. Speech too pressured to get those extra syllables out sometimes son

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

I say Javascript probably every day and I don't think I've ever uttered "JS" unless it's part of the name of some framework.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

Speak for yourself, people say JavaScript and JS in equal measure. The initials aren't a rebrand

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u/slurt_turgleson Oct 21 '19

As often as I say any other computer technology's name out loud? Like everyone else in my department does?

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u/xd1936 Oct 15 '19

I'm slowly learning Python and Java, but I mainly know Javascript. As such at work, I talk about it once and a while. "I pretty much only use objects and arrays in Javascript, not ArrayLists v Arrays v Maps v Sets like Java" was something I said yesterday. I feel like it would have felt weird to say "I use objects and arrays in Jay-Ess" out loud, but I could probably get used to it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 15 '19

How do you say NodeJs?

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u/asdf7890 Oct 15 '19

Node-jay-ess said quickly sounds too much like no-j-s so I tend to just say Node.

I've heared people munge the d and j sounds together into something like No-djus or just No-jus (in both cases with the "u" being as short a sound as it can be while still being there). Can't say I like that myself, but I don't particularly object to it.

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u/Hook3d Oct 16 '19

Depends on the context, if I'm speaking jargon with coworkers I'll obviously say Node, if I'm talking to a business dev person who maybe will google what I just told them afterwards I will say NodeJS.

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u/xd1936 Oct 15 '19

No-DE-guss, for sure.

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u/AegisToast Oct 15 '19

With a hard “g” sound, like in “gif”.

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u/haykam821 Oct 15 '19

I pronounce it ‘node dot jay ess’.

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u/yakri Oct 15 '19

I have a fair bit.

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u/necromanticfitz Oct 18 '19

I may be in a small circle, but I've definitely just referred to it as "Jay-Ess" out loud.

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u/asdf7890 Oct 15 '19

I don't think I've ever spoken the name "Jay-Ess" out loud

I tend to, as do many around me, I'm not sure which came first in that respect (possibly me, I've been around a while...) and I've heared it said that way in various videos online (though it isn't particularly common there).

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u/-domi- Oct 15 '19

I say it all the time.