>Honestly it doesn’t feel too different to javascript. ...that would be because Javascript was developed by people who wrote C/C++ :) Netscape was written mos

>Honestly it doesn’t feel too different to javascript. ...that would be because Javascript was developed by people who wrote C/C++ :) Netscape was written mostly in C++ back in the 90s because it was the Language of Choice™ So the devs that worked on Javascript borrowed a lot from C++ in terms of syntax, structure, etc Likewise, Java looks a lot like C++ because the folks at Sun were writing in C and C++ for the SunOS/Solaris operating system, and all the Unix utilities that supported it And C++ looks a lot like C because Bjourne Stroustrop started with C, and added-on And C looks a lot like B because they started with B and made something new/better PHP looks a lot like C/C++ (and perl), too ... because they started with those as inspirations "New" languages tend to "look like" the languages the designers/developers already use :)