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JavaScript
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"JavaScript had to ‘look like Java’ only less so, be Java's dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had to be done in ten days or something worse than JavaScript would have happened."
- Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript
Technically, the language was supposed to be called ECMAscript, but was renamed JavaScript to make nerds at Sun butthurt. Naturally, being similar in name to Java creates confusion among the less informed.
With improvements made to modern JS engines required to make shitty webapps more efficient, JS has become viable outside of the web browser as well. For example, the V8 engine code used for NodeJS actually compiles your shitty loosely typed JS into blazing fast machine code on-the-fly.