When did the trend of saying VanillaJS to refer to pure JavaScript come into widespread. Is the website Vanilla-js the discoverer of the term VanillaJS or was this term used even before the launch of this website?
History of VanillaJS
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I created the Vanilla JS site.I didn't coin the term Vanilla JS - it's like asking someone if they invented the term Blue Chair.  Blueness and Chairness have been things for thousands of years, and similarly, Vanilla in the software world usually means plain - Plain JS.  I remember seeing it used before I created the site.However:The Google Trends data for the term Vanilla JS, which indicates that the term came into widespread use in August 2012, coincides with the registration date of the vanilla-js.com domain name.  So, while I didn't invent the term, I probably popularized it.  This is funny, since I really don't like the term vanilla meaning plain - but, it's what the software community uses, so in the interest of clarity (and comedy), it's what I chose to use.