I was sitting in a meeting and there was a bit of confusion about whether the specification called for Java or JavaScript.

When I asked about which one it was, I got this amazingly hysterical answer.

“Java or JavaScript? Doesn’t matter, it’s really the same…”


Allow me to clarify, in case you find yourself locked in a room with people who speak only in buzzwords and really have no idea what they are talking about.

Java is a programming language written in 1995 by James Gosling. The dream was that it would be a “write once, run everywhere” language. It runs on a Java Virtual Machine, and it’s hugely popular to teach on college campus.

Also, there are like a billion unemployed Java developers.

Let’s take a look at “Hello World” in Java.

class HelloWorldApp {
    public static void main(String[] args) {

Classes, Public, Static, void,…. it’s not for the casual relaxing day of coding by the beach.



Let’s take a look at “Hello World” in JavaScript.

alert('Hello, World!')

Really simple, and runs in most every browser.

Oh yeah, and they are NOT THE SAME.