Subj : Re: Synchronet vs Mystic vs ??
To   : esc
From : tenser
Date : Wed Apr 12 2023 00:34:42

On 10 Apr 2023 at 07:22p, esc pondered and said...
 
 es>  pa> Well, they are right; Javascript is much m0re than Java was - I didn'
 es>  pa> even 'know' the difference - but do now. :P
 es> 
 es> Java is excellent at what it does, and is still an industry leader in a
 es> lot of places. JavaScript isn't really a competitor or anything, the
 es> intended use case and problems it addresses are completely different.
 es> But yeah, it's always seemed screwy to me that they chose to use the
 es> name "javascript"...alas...

It was originally called "LiveScript".  But at the time, it
looked like Java was absolutely huge, and it really seemed
like Java would sweep away all that had come before it.  The
name change was a bit of an attempt to grab some of the
associated cachet.

But Java and JavaScript are indeed two very different
languages.

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