Most Java developers and JavaScript developers understand that besides the four letters “J-A-V-A,” JavaScript and Java have very little in common other than some C-like heritage.

JavaScript and Java scored high as both most liked and most disliked programming languages in JetBrains’ State of the Developer Ecosystem survey. Perl was far and away the most disliked language.

Netscape wanted to capitalize on the hype surrounding java when it was introduced (JavaScript was originally called LiveScript).<BR><BR>JavaScript is often used for client side web development tasks.