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by 8bitsrule 2312 days ago
> I think it was called Livescript back then)?

As Encyclopedia Brittanica (!! who'd have thought) puts it,

JavaScript was developed in 1995 at Netscape Communications Corp. and was conceived of as a companion to Java. It was originally called Mocha and then LiveScript before Netscape received a marketing license from Sun.[0]

And then it became 'a dialect of ECMAScript'...

[0] https://www.britannica.com/technology/JavaScript