I prefer Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet. Just like there is some carpet in a car, there is some minor overlap, but they're totally different things.
I generally just tell people plainly that it was a marketing ploy and that they have nothing to do with each other aside from the fact that they are both programming languages.
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I prefer Java is to JavaScript as car is to carpet. Just like there is some carpet in a car, there is some minor overlap, but they're totally different things.
There's also grape and grapefruit, they both are fruits but totally different ones.
taken from the r/learnprogramming faq
This is perfect because they're more similar to each other than either one is to, say, Haskell, so they're not totally unrelated.
I generally just tell people plainly that it was a marketing ploy and that they have nothing to do with each other aside from the fact that they are both programming languages.