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.

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

JavaScript is used by 63% of the coders surveyed, followed by Python (44%) and Java (38%). Hired said these languages were favoured because of their useful and well-maintained libraries and packages.

Programming languages: C++ overtakes PHP, but JavaScript, Python and Java still rule While the most used programming languages remain stable, there's quite a lot of change elsewhere.

JavaScript may be the language of the web, as Jon Udell wrote back in 2015, but it’s a language that forces us to “battl [e] the language itself” as we try to apply it to more complex problems.

What just happened? For the first time in more than 20 years, the Python programming language has overtaken Java, JavaScript, and C as the most popular language.