Comment by doublerabbit

> Also, java's dominance I guess was the reason that javascript is named after inspiration of java.

Very loosely, was named that was as an marketing ploy as Java was the new language at the time.

JavaScript is actually ECMAScript or a v.close direlect of. Originally it was called Mocha, and then relabeled to LiveScript and during the NetScape / Sun Microsystems thing, changed itself to JavaScript and Oracle carried it on from there.

It has some quite interesting history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History