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Linguists or Developers.
Who are they? There was that one guy who developed JavaScript, and he decided on the name of JavaScript, not ECMA.
JS and Java are like car and carpet.
Bullshit. AOL was a huge company with large development teams and lots of people worked on JavaScript. Obviously there was a project lead and in the beginning he did most of the work, but a project that big doesn't get done by one person and by the end he would have been doing less than 1% of the work.
The legal teams at AOL and Sun Microsystems negotiated JavaScript as part of a deal where AOL would "only" pay millions of dollars per month to license Java as long as they didn't include any other programming languages in the browser. JavaScript wasn't a separate language, we promise.
No, JavaScript was originally slapped together in 2 weeks at the last minute by one dude. It doesn’t take a team to put together a small interpreter
Brenden Eich:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich?wprov=sfti1