Java is not JavaScript; neither is JavaScript-based On Java! For those confused, here is an extract from the Java website: The JavaScript programming language, developed by Netscape, Inc., is not ...

Most Java developers and JavaScript developers understand that besides the four letters “J-A-V-A,” JavaScript and Java have very little in common other than some C-like heritage.

What can I do with Java and C++ that I can't do with JavaScript? This question was originally answered on Quora by Mattias Petter Johansson.

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.

Since Java is widely taught in undergraduate classes, its traffic rises in fall and spring and declines in summer. Among countries not considered wealthy, Python is the eighth most-visited tag.

It turns out that Ethereum's Solidity, JavaScript, and Java are the most popular blockchain development languages, according to data from StackOverflow.

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.