Java is not, however, the same as JavaScript. In fact, they don't have a ton of similarities besides their names. JavaScript is generally used within HTML documents (like web pages) ...

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.

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.

In IntelliJ IDEA 13, you can set breakpoints in the Java and Nashorn JavaScript files using the same shortcut key (Com/Ctrl-F8). When you hit a JavaScript breakpoint, you get all the usual ...

According to the University website, “[CS 106J] covers the same material as CS 106A but does so using JavaScript, the most common language for implementing interactive web pages, instead of Java.” ...

Carmack acknowledges this in the same podcast: “The systems that make JavaScript run as fast as it does right now are kind of miracles of modern engineering in many ways.” ...

Java, JavaScript and Python are invariably the three most popular programming languages in several indexes, but their exact order varies depending on how the ranking is calculated. Lately most ...