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Nothing to see here, everyone calls it ECMAScript.

But ECMAScript is a mouthful to say and sounds a bit like a skin condition, I don't think that's ever going to become the common name people use for it.

Agreed. You're not the only one who thinks so:

"ECMAScript was always an unwanted trade name that sounds like a skin disease." - Brendan Eich [1]

1. https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/es-discuss/2006-October/0...

In Germany, we pronounce it as one word.

Ecmascript and not E C M A script. Which makes it as easy to pronounce as JavaScript.

The complaint still holds though. Add "-osis" to get "ecmascriptosis", something that sounds more likely to be overheard in a hospital than at a Node meetup.

> E C M A script

Is anyone pronouncing it like that?

I propose we start a campaign to rename it EScript. I like the sound of that and we preserve the E for ECMA.

How about eek-script? That preserves the first two phonetics of ECMA and sounds about right.

EichScript?

Too close to Eichmann.

I've been programming JavaScript professionally for ten years and have interacted with thousands of JavaScript developers online and offline. I have never once heard anyone call the language ECMAScript except when they were specifically referring to the ECMA-262 specification.

Edit: After writing that I thought back, and now I do remember one time when somebody called the language ECMAScript when they weren't referring to the ECMA standard. I think this was the exception that proves the rule!

This is far from the truth, unfortunately. We will get there eventually, but everyone has to do their part in removing JS from their vocabulary.

Given the committee's track record, do you think they will manage to change script type= text/javascript by 2050, or it will take a bit longer than that?

You don't need to specify the type on a script anyway if you are using ECMAScript/JS.

That's a MIME type. Those don't get removed. They're also not necessary. The only reason to use the type attribute on the script element is to use a MIME type that isn't ECMAScript's so that the browser doesn't execute it as such.

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