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[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As far as I know, that's because Java was the world's first programming language at the time when Netscape and Brendan Eich developed JavaScript. The story of JavaScript is certainly one of the most chaotic. Very interesting story tho

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Java is not very much older than Javascript and at the time it was far from the world's first programming language. It probably was measured by hype in developer circles the Rust of the mid-nineties.