> It's both amusing and absurd that what was practically intended as Java's little helper, JavaScript, has grown up to be this thing that might actually replace Java entirely.
I though JS was named to piggyback on Java's popularity, not because it was actually intended to complement Java.
"That’s right. It was all within six months from May till December (1995) that it was Mocha and then LiveScript. And then in early December, Netscape and Sun did a license agreement and it became JavaScript. And the idea was to make it a complementary scripting language to go with Java, with the compiled language."
I though JS was named to piggyback on Java's popularity, not because it was actually intended to complement Java.