Why is JavaScript called JavaScript, since it has nothing to do with Java? [closed]

Answer 1

We were obsessed with naming things after coffee in the 90's.

I know... what were we thinking?!

Answer 2

The project was originally called Mocha, then renamed to LiveScript, and finally to JavaScript when Netscape and Sun did a license agreement. The idea at the time was to make it a scripting language complimentary to Java.

My Source.

Answer 3

The language has similarities to C-adjecents to which Java counts aswell.

It was first named Mocha but later renamed to LiveScript and finally to JavaScript due to marketing reasons. To accomodate the Java trend during that time there was an interface between LiveScript and Java called LiveConnect. This connection was intented to be expressed with the new name "JavaScript".

Answer 4

It's just a historical mistake. (and according to me there's no real valid reason to name JavaScript as JavaScript)

They have similar names because market was crazy about these new technologies when they were starting to come out (actually Netscape was about to include Java inside Netscape) and they accidentally chose to change LiveScript name to JavaScript. I wrote accidentally because they have nothing in common (apart from being two programming languages) so there's no a real, analytic reason for this similarity.

Answer 5

Java is to Javascript what Car is to Carpet.

"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."

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History

Answer 6

At the time Javascript or Livescript was launched into market the Sun MicroSystems was busy with the java creation so they named it as javascript. Also it uses some basic construts of the java.