Java vs. JavaScript Wait, there is a huge difference between Java and JavaScript. Java is from Oracle while the latter JavaScript is from Netscape Inc.

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.

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.

Nevertheless, one way of implementing a JavaScript interpreter is to compile JavaScript into Java byte codes, which is what Rhino and Nashorn were designed to do.

Final Debug Responds: It’s true that JavaScript isn’t as robust a language as Sun’s Java. It’s not supposed to generate standalone applications, only mini-applications that run swiftly and ...

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 ...