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Turns out, Java and JavaScript are not 'car' and 'carpet' --- ECMA-262 2025: 'ECMAScript syntax INTENTIONALLY resembles that of Java' (tc39.es)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I linked to the anchor where it says that, right to the bottom of the section 4.3. Will people just STOP saying JavaScript was 'never intended' to have 'nothing to do with Java'? They clearly meant JavaScript to be to Java what AWK is to C, at least syntax-wise. I was born one year after JS was conceived (the standard says 'invented', invented my ass! Who 'invents' a language?) so I am too young to have been around in the early days of web. But it seems like people back then wanted Java to be lingua franca of web, a bit like PostScript in the thread I posted a few hours ago. They named it JavaScript to assure people that it's the interpreted, scripting form of Java.

Now don't say 'JS and Java are like car and carpet' you will look like an idiot.

Also if you are wondering why I am reading the standard, it serves two purposes. First is, I wanna implement it one day in the future. Second is, I know shit about web scripting and I wanted to make myself a blog and I miserably failed. So I am learning it.

I know nobody asked, but one person might be wondering why someone would do this to himself.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I used to use IE when I was like 12~13

I think I switched to FF when I was 13.5 and never looked back. Just the tabs man. I use Pop_OS! these days and a few months ago I accedentally enabled tiling, then it I realized it has tabs. I am as happy as I were back then. Tabs are a concept that were thought of too late.

btw this document mentions JScript. I don't know WTF is that but when I google normal JS comes up.