JavaScript is a high-level programming language that is one of the core technologies of the World Wide Web. JavaScript was originally used only to develop web browsers, but they are now used for server-side website deployments and non-web browser applications as well. JavaScript was created in 1995 and was initially known as Live Script. JavaScript is often confused with java . As java was popular at that time and hence it was introduced as its child . As time evolved , Javascript became a fully independent language. Even though there are few similarities both the languages are discrete