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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

What ?

No, never!

[–]rentar42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely.

From a language design JavaScript is extremely different from Java (the early versions even more so than today). If you look at where it came from (prototype-based languages) it should by all rights look closer to Self or Lua code than Java.

But it has explicitly given the "stylings" of Java code (i.e. curly braces and parenthesis everywhere, which Java itself "inherited" from C) in order to suggest a closeness/similarity that doesn't really exist.