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		Buttons840 on July 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Val, a high-level systems programming language It will work to their advantage. Anyone learning one of these language is looking for "the new hotness", and will probably become aware of the other similarly named languages in the process, and will thus look them up. JavaScript did it, how did that turn out for them?

coldtea on July 18, 2023 [–]

Javascript was the only game in town in the browser for cross-browser support.

The name didn't matter at all, it could have been named Fooscript and still be popular.

jholman on July 19, 2023 | [–]

Coulda named it after a skin disease!

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