Why is Javascript's name so similar to Java's name?

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The language's name is the result of a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their then-dominant browser." It was originally called Mocha, renamed to LiveScript, and then renamed to JavaScript.

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i heard that java was trendy and the developers of javascript wanted in on the hype by calling theirs javascript.

java and javascript are completely different

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Pufferfish_Test

If you want to be really pedantic, javascript is the implementation, whilst ECMAScript (European Computer Manufacturers' Association Script) is the language/specification/standard, hence javascript's proper name is not similar to java in any way, other than that it uses the latin alphabet.
But we're not pedantic at all in the advanced topics, so you can safely ignore this post unless you want to learn some debatably useless information*.

* it is left to the discretion of the reader to decide whether this is information that is debatably useless, or sonething useless that is debatably information.

On a serious note, although it had no impact on the name, both languages use C-like syntax, and both are types of coffee (js was also called mocha at some point).

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Xolay wrote:
The language's name is the result of a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their then-dominant browser." It was originally called Mocha, renamed to LiveScript, and then renamed to JavaScript.

Yea they renamed it cuz they had the domain javascript.com

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LankyBox01 wrote:
Xolay wrote:
The language's name is the result of a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their then-dominant browser." It was originally called Mocha, renamed to LiveScript, and then renamed to JavaScript.
Yea they renamed it cuz they had the domain javascript.com

source?

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LankyBox01

Jeffalo wrote:
LankyBox01 wrote:
Xolay wrote:
The language's name is the result of a co-marketing deal between Netscape and Sun, in exchange for Netscape bundling Sun's Java runtime with their then-dominant browser." It was originally called Mocha, renamed to LiveScript, and then renamed to JavaScript.
Yea they renamed it cuz they had the domain javascript.com
source?

i clearly remember it from some article a few months ago, but it now gives a 404
i suppose it was false, since i can't find another source stating this, sorry.

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