@wallhackio Please educate me about the differences between ES5 and ES6
@vaporeon_ are you familiar with the term ecmascript?
@wallhackio That's the proper name for what's commonly called JavaScript, right? I once saw a print-out of the ECMAscript standard, but I didn't pick it up, unfortunately
@vaporeon_ sun microsystems trademarked JavaScript in the 90s because of course they did, so when JavaScript was standardized (I believed in 1997?) the committee was not sure if they had the rights to publish a document with that term.
they were going to call it LiveScript (or was it ActionScript? i forgot which) but Netscape had also trademarked that name and as such the committee wasn't sure if they could use that name either.
the group which standardized JavaScript was, at the time, part of the European Computer Manufacturer's Association, or ECMA for short, and since they ran out of time before both Sun and Netscape could get back to them regarding the preferred names, the committee decided to settle with the name ECMAScript. Nobody liked the name but it was chosen and now it stuck.
@wallhackio @vaporeon_ The organization is now called Ecma (not an acronym) but the specification is still called ECMAScript (with that capitalization) for historical reasons. Deno is currently suing Oracle, the current owners of the JavaScript trademark, to get their trademark invalidated.
@Lady @vaporeon_ oh that's based as hell, deno wins again