Actually if you look up the history of JS it is only called "Java"Script because Java was popular, it originally was called LiveScript but due to political pressures it was named JavaScript.
The underpinning semantics of the language are vastly different, with the ideas of first class functions, and mutable runtime designed classes (via prototypes). Those in minds, please read the history of EcmaScript, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fg4e-2lBw5E has some details, but there is much more around the internet. I suggest the following: 1. Can you point to backwards compatibility breakages? We wish to avoid that. 2. Can you point to which features you want in the language? Once again, the underlying semantics of http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-262.htm (see section #4) differ vastly (and never refers to being a subset or compatible with) Java.
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