PayPal has decided to use JavaScript from browser all the way to the back-end server for web applications, giving up legacy code written in JSP/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.

Java and JavaScript are the most popular programming languages by most metrics, in no small part because they're widely taught and allow for rapid and stable development. But JavaScript and Java ...

Netscape wanted to capitalize on the hype surrounding java when it was introduced (JavaScript was originally called LiveScript).<BR><BR>JavaScript is often used for client side web development tasks.

Java SE 6 makes it simple to use JavaScript within Java code. Other scripting engines can also be associated with Java, but it is handy to have one provided out-of-the-box with Mozilla Rhino.

JavaScript is used by 63% of the coders surveyed, followed by Python (44%) and Java (38%). Hired said these languages were favoured because of their useful and well-maintained libraries and packages.

To call Nashorn JavaScript from a Java 8 program, you basically need to make a new ScriptEngineManager instance and use that ScriptEngineManager to load the Nashorn script engine by name.

Following Java and JavaScript, the report found the top 10 languages for the enterprise are: C++, C#, Python, PHP, VB.NET, C, Visual Basic 6 and VBA.