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by aperrien 531 days ago
While descriptive, I'd think a catchier name might be in order. As a plus, that can be used to draw people away from any Oracle branding.
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Just call it Browserscript, and be done with it. Call it what it is.
But it's also Serverscript due to Node.js.
> Call it what it is

NOT Browserscript then. JS moved beyond the browser almost 3 decades ago (rhino.jar, anyone?) and became mainstream on the server side almost a decade ago.

But it hasn't.. its just a browser running headless on the server.
You’re confused, what you have in mind is Electron. NodeJS et al. use a JS engine, not a browser engine. NodeJS does not have DOM rendering or even parsing for instance.
I'm aware of it is, people are using it wrong. ;)
Or Webscript
ScriptyScript
Scripty McScriptface
ScriptyJava?