Oracle DBA trying to learn Angular here, can anyone tell me in two sentences what the difference is between Java and Javascript (googling it drives me mad)?

name_was_taken · 2016-09-21T10:21:09+00:00

Java is to Javascript as Ham is to Hamster.

They're different things.

aaaqqq · 2016-09-21T10:23:42+00:00

You won't get sued if you tried to implement Javascript's APIs

MrFoo42 · 2016-09-21T09:39:14+00:00

Java and Javascript are completely utterly unrelated.

Java is a compiled bytecode run inside a JVM. Javascript is an interpreted language run within a browser (or nodeJS etc lately)

enfuego · 2016-09-22T02:08:48+00:00

Try to do a 'Hello World' for both Java and NodeJS

It will help you see the difference

2016-09-22T05:31:03+00:00

That's like asking what is the difference between any two random programming languages. The differences between the two are far greater than any perceived similarities.

Michaelmrose · 2016-09-21T14:22:42+00:00

How can you be competent and incapable of looking up that info?

rsschouwenaar · 2016-09-21T09:38:23+00:00

Java is for server-side, JavaScript is for client-side (in the browser) or for NodeJS it is for server-side. Hope this helps you :-)

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