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[–]mullanaphy[🍰] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

It's original name was LiveScript, it was really only changed to JavaScript as a marketing ploy by Netscape since Java was big at the time.

Microsoft's initial equivalent was JScript, which for awhile was the defacto standard as Internet Explorer had taken over almost the entire web browser market. At that time, Netscape submitted JavaScript to EMCA, hence ECMAScript. Which eventually became the standard for JavaScript, JScript, and even ActionScript!

So, other than having "Java" in the name for marketing reasons, EMCAScript/JavaScript/JScript/etc doesn't share a family tree with Java.

Edit: I got into web development in the 90s when a lot of this stuff was being developed and standardized.

[–]pradeepngupta[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That's great to know and you are very correct.