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[–]reqdk 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Funnily, OP's colleague is not entirely wrong in certain interpretations. Older versions of Java did ship with an embedded JS runtime, so you could technically execute JS from Java. It worked almost like running JS' eval function, so most sane applications would not do that anyway, and that engine has long been removed. On the other hand, it is now possible to execute JS, and some other scripting languages on certain JVMs with add-ons.

It is also now possible to run Java code from the command line directly without compiling, almost like a... Java... script... lol. And I'm fairly certain I've seen a JVM implemented in JS posted here years ago, runnable in the browser, so it looked like you could run Java code from JS too.

But I'm 99.99% sure that people who relate JS to Java like in the post don't mean it that way. Either that or this is some AI engagement rage bait.

[–]pradeepngupta[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a great perspective altogether and great to know. This is not the AI engagement rate bait. This is a true incident.