JavaScript Vs. Java: Differences, Similarities and History of Creation

Written by wagslane | Published 2020/01/15
Tech Story Tags: java | javascript | history | programming | tutorial | software-development | beginners | object-oriented

TLDR Java was created in 1991 by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems. JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich in 1995, 4 years after Java got its start. Java rose quickly to fame and adoption mostly due to its cross-platform nature and object-oriented programming (OOP) pattern. Java is a king of the OOP design pattern, and requires that everything in the program be a class, even the main function! JavaScript was positioned uniquely which would contribute to it becoming the most used programming language today.via the TL;DR App
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Written by wagslane | Founder of Boot.dev. Whining about coding sins since 2011. Committing coding sins for the same.
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/01/15
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