But that is not correct, js is not interpreted/executed step-by-step in many cases (it is a bit more complicated, there are multiple interpreters and JIT compil

But that is not correct, js is not interpreted/executed step-by-step in many cases (it is a bit more complicated, there are multiple interpreters and JIT compiler in the picture, it usually is started up by interpreting but then switched to JIT compiled native machine code). The correct difference to make is the execution model, one being basically a Turing machine while the other is more similar to logic programming languages.