The JavaScript programming language, developed by Netscape, Inc., is not part of the Java platform. JavaScript, does not create applets or stand-alone applications.

Software Industry programming python Python overtakes Java, JavaScript as most popular programming language for first time in 20 years The victory doesn't necessarily indicate it's the best, though ...

JavaScript has eclipsed Java as the most-learned language among developers, according to a report released week by technical recruiter HackerRank. Based on an online survey of 71,281 developers ...

Online payment service PayPal says swapping Java for node.js on its servers is allowing it to serve web pages more rapidly and simplifying the creation of server-side software. PayPal has moved ...

Python also ranked highly in Stack Overflow's 2017 developer survey, which found it was the fifth most popular language behind JavaScript, SQL, Java, and C#.

First of all, JavaScript is not Java. It has nothing to do with Java (The language and its associated technologies from Sun Microsystems). To be honest, I'm not even sure why it's called JavaScript.

To call Nashorn JavaScript from a Java 8 program, you basically need to make a new ScriptEngineManager instance and use that ScriptEngineManager to load the Nashorn script engine by name.

Java SE 6 makes it simple to use JavaScript within Java code. Other scripting engines can also be associated with Java, but it is handy to have one provided out-of-the-box with Mozilla Rhino.

It's a bit unclear what you mean when you say "what can I do". If you're referring to specific language features that are available to Java or C++ that are not available to JavaScript, it would be ...