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Docs/Naming: Standardize on "Promise" or "Thenable" in rule names #5946

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One rule directly refers to Thenables:

Other rules refer to Promises:

IMO it's confusing how only one rule refers to Thenables... even though that's technically the correct term.

Thoughts: should we rename some rule(s) for clarity vs. discoverability? I haven't re-looked deeply into the rules, but if no-floating-promises & no-misused-promises actually work on all Thenables (and not just Promises) then maybe we should call them all thenables? Or maybe most users don't know what a Thenable is, and we should always say Promises?

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https://typescript-eslint.io/rules/

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