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Reminds me of the urban legend that KFC couldn't legally call itself Kentucky Fried Chicken because they were using genetically modified hens that had no heads, hence the name change to just initials.

php stands for php hyper processing. js could stand for js script.

"What doesn't it stand for? It stands for commitment. It stands for audacity. It stands for courage in the face of..."

Let's all it "JS" and completely break from Java

or, you know, its alter ego ECMAScript? ES for short.

Nobody likes that name, stop

I don't like it, but I dislike it less than I dislike the name JavaScript.

I like it. Maybe some people don't like it.

I said stop

"What does JS stand for?" "Because it can't sit down! rimshot"

What's the point? Move on to Typescript and just call it TS. I never got the hang out of why people tend to add "-script" to the the name of a programming language like it's 1995.