Java is to JavaScript as ham is to a hamster Many people assume just because JavaScript has “Java” in its name that the two are somehow related. Although most programmers will roll their eyes at this ...

JSweet leverages TypeScript to write rich and responsive Web applications in Java through the use of JavaScript libraries and frameworks. With JSweet, Java programs are transpiled (source-to-source ...

It’s also the name of the replacement — introduced with Java 8 — for the old, slow Rhino JavaScript engine. Both Rhino and Nashorn are implementations of the JavaScript language written to ...

Barcode scanner libraries Oberhofer has looked at were mostly written in C/C++ or Java. There already has been a JavaScript-based barcode library, zgingjs, he notes. QuaggaJS, however is intended ...

Short Bytes: Why does “JavaScript” contain “Java” word in it? Well, it has nothing to do with Java. The early web browser wars between Netscape (backed by Sun Microsystems) and Microsoft ...

PayPal has moved from building web applications using Java to using JavaScript in the browser and node.js on servers. Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime that allows ...