Differences Between Java and JavaScript It’s a very common perception thinking both Java and JavaScript are the same. But the truth is there is nothing common between them except their name Java.

Online payment service PayPal says swapping Java for node.js on its servers is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying the creation of server-side software.

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

Java developers have historically perceived JavaScript as a toy language, both too lightweight for real programming and too clunky to be of use as a scripting alternative. And yet JavaScript is ...

Java vs. Javascript: The Java 7 security flaw does not affect JavaScript. While they're both programming languages, they're not as closely related as their names imply.

Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#.