I prefer Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet. Just like there is some carpet in a car, there is some minor overlap, but they're totally different things.
I generally just tell people plainly that it was a marketing ploy and that they have nothing to do with each other aside from the fact that they are both programming languages.
Humanist living the Colorado life, w/ a modicum of scripting experience. My background is across multiple industries (mostly contract work). Emotional intelligence > Artificial Intelligence
JavaScript has nothing to do with Java.
I blew the designers' minds a few weeks ago with the "car and carnation" analogy 😅
I prefer Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet. Just like there is some carpet in a car, there is some minor overlap, but they're totally different things.
There's also grape and grapefruit, they both are fruits but totally different ones.
taken from the r/learnprogramming faq
This is perfect because they're more similar to each other than either one is to, say, Haskell, so they're not totally unrelated.
I generally just tell people plainly that it was a marketing ploy and that they have nothing to do with each other aside from the fact that they are both programming languages.
That would explain why I don't want to touch it with a 50-foot pole lol