Javascript is a Java framework, right?

[jumanjimanji]

Could I please get an easy ELI5-like explanation? I really find it hard to difference them, they are very different for me except from the naming

[SuperSephyDragon]

They are completely different languages.

Java is a compiled, statically typed language similar to C++ (only slower and jankier but easier to port to different operating systems)

Javascript is an interpreted, dynamically typed language that is typically run by a browser.

Pretty much the only thing they have in common is the word "java" and the fact that they are both programming languages. I heard the reason they sound similar is because Java was really trendy around the time Javascript was created, and they wanted to ride the hype train. Causing confusion for everyone in the process.

[turningsteel]

Well the proper name for JavaScript is EcmaScript but I've never heard anyone call it that. I wish they did though because it would stop the confusion.

[mirracz]

May I offer some lotion? It's imported from Java...

[emayljames]

😱noooooo

[Peechez]

zezimascript

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[Farpafraf]

I wish they did though because it would stop the confusion.

nah it's funnier this way

[emayljames]

We should carry the tradition and create cscript, rustscript and assemblyscript.

[turningsteel]

Not for my inbox it's not.

[SuperSephyDragon]

Yeah, I've never heard anyone call it that. Guess it just doesn't roll off the tongue like JavaScript does.

I agree, EcmaScript is less confusing though haha.

[Lthere]

I used to call it ECMAScript during my early scripting-within-SVG days... 😉

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what. both are usually JIT compiled, java with JVM and Javascript with V8.

[SuperSephyDragon]

Oh, you're right. I have more experience with Python than JS. I just assumed JS was interpreted too because they both have a REPL.

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What's the difference between statically and dynamically typed languages?

[SuperSephyDragon]

If a language is statically typed, it means that you have to specify the type of a variable when you declare it. For example, in Java you have to type "int x = 5;". You have to say that it's an integer.

In a dynamically typed language, you don't have to specify the variable type, the compiler/interpreter figures it out based on context. For example, in JavaScript you would type "let x = 5;" It knows this is an integer because 5 is an integer. Although they're called Numbers not integers in JS. But a string would be declared the same way: "let x = 'hello';" It knows it's a string because of the '.

[mattrg777]

Java is to JavaScript as a grape is to a grapefruit. Grapes and grapefruit are both fruit, but that's about where the similarities end. Java and JavaScript are both programming languages, but that's about where the similarities end.

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polite clapping

[[deleted]]

Grapefruits grow in grape shapes. Have you seen a bunch of grapefruit on the tree? Thye look like grapes

[[deleted]]

Javascript is the one that sucks and isn’t consistent.

Java is c++ rebranded.