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mattkevan 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)

It's a genuinely terrible name.

Maybe it should just be pronounced eck-ma-script so it's got the same number of syllables as ja-va-script.

lionkor 9 months ago | [–]

It is pronounced like that, typically

art0rz 9 months ago | [–]

I've only ever heard it pronounced as "EcmaScript" not E-C-M-A Script"

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