alt Hacker NewsIt's pretty interesting that while both languages still receive new features, Java seems to stay ahead of JavaScript:
- Java has long had a modern replacement for Date, while JavaScript's recently standardized Temporal API still isn't supported in Safari.
- Java has switch expressions, while JavaScript, despite its Scheme influence, does not.
- And now Java is getting value objects, while JavaScript's equivalent tuples & records proposal has been withdrawn.[0]
JavaScript was not developed as a fork of Java, but much of its basic syntax still resembles Java, so I think it's fair to compare them.
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Java is to JavaScript what a Car is to Carpet. Very different beasts, though a lot of V8 work was inspired by Hotspot that's just because of common VM patterns not the syntax of the languages.
> JavaScript was not developed as a fork of Java, but much of its basic syntax still resembles Java, so I think it's fair to compare them.
It's absolutely irrelevant to compare these two languages. Calling the former "Javascript" was just a marketing trick.
I've been annoyed too by the lack of Temporal support in Safari. It's supposedly behind a --useTemporal flag, but I've never been able to get flags to work even when launching the binary directly, and I can't find anything in developer options or feature flags settings either so like. Does it even exist at all??
I personally would never compare the two. Someone said: java to JavaScript is like car to carpet. And I completely agree with that.