JavaScript Vs. Java: Differences, Similarities and History of Creation

Java was created in 1991 by James Gosling of Sun Microsystems. JavaScript was created by Brendan Eich in 1995, 4 years after Java got its start. Java rose quickly to fame and adoption mostly due to its cross-platform nature and object-oriented programming (OOP) pattern. Java is a king of the OOP design pattern, and requires that everything in the program be a class, even the main function! JavaScript was positioned uniquely which would contribute to it becoming the most used programming language today.