Deno vs Oracle: The ugly custody battle for JavaScript… (www.youtube.com)
from mesamunefire@piefed.social to programming@programming.dev on 29 Aug 20:42
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criss_cross@lemmy.world on 30 Aug 00:15 next collapse

Is there a tldw? Not opposed to getting into details I just don’t have the means to watch the video.

Sxan@piefed.zip on 30 Aug 08:45 next collapse

Or þe desire.

waffle@sh.itjust.works on 30 Aug 12:11 collapse

TL;DW from my vague memories:

Oracle got the trademark for JavaScript because they bought the company who made it. Now they have no involvement in the JavaScript ecosystem aside from making a library that barely anyone is using. The JavaScript standard has to refer to JavaScript as ECMAScript because Oracle doesn’t want anything to do with it and won’t allow other people to use the JavaScript name.

The Node.JS/Done guy says that’s stupid and had been requesting Oracle to release the trademark into the public domain for years which Oracle had always ignored/refused. More recently, Node.JS/Deno guy took Oracle to court for holding onto the JavaScript copyright with no intention of doing anything with it which ended in failure with Oracle claiming they’re involved in the ecosystem thanks to that one library they made.

The guy who created JavaScript agrees that’s stupid but can’t help.

tracyspcy@lemmy.ml on 29 Aug 21:01 collapse

Node-> Deno->Done?

Paradox@lemdro.id on 30 Aug 01:50 collapse

If you can swing it. I really like bun for more traditional node stuff, because it has a ton of goodies built in, like a bundler

tracyspcy@lemmy.ml on 30 Aug 11:15 collapse

I’ve never tried Deno. The joke was about the guy’s obsession with those four letters and an extrapolation to what the next name or state of project might be.