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@dder I believe it was a marketing move, the folks at Netscape (?) wanted to hitch a ride on the then-recent surge in popularity of Java.
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bjoer751772y@dder From Wikipedia
Although it was developed under the name Mocha, the language was officially called LiveScript when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript[2] when it was deployed in the Netscape Navigator 2.0 beta 3 in December.[13] The final choice of name caused confusion, giving the impression that the language was a spin-off of the Java programming language, and the choice has been characterized[14] as a marketing ploy by Netscape to give JavaScript the cachet of what was then the hot new Web programming language. -
This is why I am not a JavaScript developer. I am a JS developer. What does JS stand for? Absolutely nothing. Don't ask questions.
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@EclipseMain I second @MrWouter. Java has way more uses than that. Java Spring allows for a whole microservice architecture and to create a backend of a website that you'd have no idea was Java or not with a frontend that obviously supports JavaScript.
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