alt Hacker NewsJava and Javascript would like to have a chat :)
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But Copilot is another Microsoft monstrosity. There's the M365 Copilot, which is different from Github Copilot which is different from the CLI Copilot which is a bit different from the VSCode Copilot. I think I might have missed a few copilots?
JavaScript was intentionally named in order to ride the Java hype train, so this wasn't accidental.
Prior names included Mocha and LiveScript until Netscape/Sun forced the current name.