The JavaScript programming language, developed by Netscape, Inc., is not part of the Java platform. JavaScript, does not create applets or stand-alone applications.

Here’s a list of key differences between Java and JavaScript as programming languages. As Java has so many important features it is a most commonly used programming language.

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

I mean, any language with script in its name is obviously going to be a step down from the mighty Java. (Or, as Neil Young put it in his surreal cameo appearance at JavaOne 2008, “The Jay -va.”) ...