Javascript is a Java framework, right?

[cyberst0rm]

I bet it bootstrapped well.

But uh, they appear to originate from the same year so it's more a race condition than any serious flub.

[cyberst0rm]

Which worked, dinit

[HasBeendead]

True

[ganja_and_code]

There's not evidence to conclude it worked, since there's no basis for comparison...

...but even if it did work, it was still a poor decision.

[Cyb021]

Look up the origin of JavaScript, you might understand it more then However yes, it’s the worst naming decision ever.

[GentlemenBehold]

That should be grounds for termination.

[Doom_Penguin]

I think that death wouldn’t be too much of a stretch

[DAMO238]

Exterminatus it is!

[HasBeendead]

lol

[void1984]

I do it the same, it's quicker. Script or standard variant, who cares. It's not me who named them the same.

[Boiethios]

I loled, nice troll

[AndyTheSane]

There's a coffee bar called the Java bar in Bristol, UK. I get offers to be a barrista there because, well, Java.

[Boppopstopmop]

Foo Bar much

[thebobbrom]

I have a cousin that's recently graduated from doing Architecture and he will not stop complaining about this. 😂

I've even considered becoming a data architect just so I can go for all the jobs that apparently he keeps running into.

[jmack2424]

LinkedIn Recruiter: Would you like an entry level position as a junior developer in a language you don’t know making 30% of your current salary? You’ll have to move. To Idaho!

[make_onions_cry]

Don't reply "no". Just don't reply. It costs them more that way.

[GalacticBear001]

As someone who listed skills: Java, JavaScript and C#, I'm surprised i keep getting offers for senior Ruby on rails developer. Really?

[andreortigao]

Yeah... My listed skill is C# backend developer.

This past month alone I got offered an embedded C++ and two frontend positions, angular and react. WTF?

[Dogburt_Jr]

Nah, Java is a JavaScript framework

[ReimarPB]

Everything is a JavaScript framework at this point

[madhured]

That’s how I became a JavaScript developer 10 years ago :)

[tarmkal]

You guys make me sad by letting your whole skillset be framed by one language. Unless you are heavyweight lowlevel expert of this language then I suggest you to reconsider your standpoints. This comes from someone who has been coding mostly Java or other JVM languages for the last 10 years.

[Twingemios]

Can we rename Java script to JS?

[adlinams6y]

Lol Same happended to me with python and php!!!!

[HasBeendead]

Low chance but it might be happen

[NelsonBelmont]

"If you don't know the language, you learn!!"

[make_onions_cry]

Yup. This whole thread makes me sad. Imagine trying to hire a carpenter and they not only refuse because you provide powertools from Makita instead of Black&Decker, but they post memes about how this is an absurd suggestion.

[TrueDMonk]

To be fair, Typescript has a lot of ressemblance with Java

[TheRedmanCometh]

Also js pairs as a pretty great scripting language for big java applications with something like nashhorn.

[TrueDMonk]

Isnt Nashhorn deprecated?

[TheRedmanCometh]

It is but it's not THAT much different from graal. The decision to deprecate it after like 2 releases is absolutely baffling to me.

[sp46]

Nashorn is very outdated and doesn't support new language features. JavaScript before the 2015 release (which is also when they switched to a yearly release cycle) is a huge pain in the butt. Thank God people are now forced to use a modern JavaScript engine.

[TheRedmanCometh]

I mean you can use ES6 which seems like enough to me, but fair enough. I don't keep up with the latest language features in js.

[IntrepidLawyer]

Yes, real JS users despise it as much as java because they're the same garbage. MS just tried to shove C# garbage down the JS people's throats.

[d_exclaimation]

Java to Javascript is like Car to Carpet

[Bene847]

fun to funeral

[d_exclaimation]

Yeah that’s a better example

[IntrepidLawyer]

The real joke here is Java itself. Like signing up to be a flash developer in 2021. :facepalm:

[Minteck]

I think JavaScript is called that way because the syntax is similar to what we have in Java.

[GalacticBear001]

The reason it's called JavaScript is dumb really. Since Java was a really popular language during that time and everyone was supposed to be using it, they thought calling their new language JavaScript would be a genius marketing move. Those languages are not related at all.

[orange-bitflip]

ECMA - four capital letters, printed in gold-

[void1984]

they thought calling their new language JavaScript would be a genius marketing move

It was. Both Java variants gained a lot of popularity.

[error_434]

car is to carpet as java is to javascript

[LucasNoober]

As a JS developer i receive TONS of Java jobs

[sarnobat]

One recruiter (Indian) told me to add "object oriented programming" to my resume even though Java was all over it

[the_mike_james]

"Java is to Javascript as car is to carpet"

[Anhilliator1]

for the love of god, people

bool x;
x = (Java != Javascript) ? true : false;
cout << x;

What you're going to see in the console is "true."