What do applets have to do with anything?

I wish that applets had never been invented, too. But only because of market confusion. So many people who don't know anything about Java mix up applets (which haven't been relevant in almost 20 years) with Swing or JavaFX desktop apps, think that security vulnerabilities found in the browser plugin mean that standalone Java apps are "insecure" in general, etc.

I think applets gave Java a terrible black eye as a client-side because of how insecure Java in the browser turned out to be.

The market confusion I would blame on Netscape for choosing "Javascript" as the name for their scripting language.

Applets have nothing to do with Java desktop app development, and I don't think anyone has confused the relationship between Java and JavaScript in over a decade.

I don't believe you really have anything to contribute to this thread, and are just bouncing from one tangential reference to the next to feel insightful.

First, I'm sorry if I've offended you in some way. Your original answer to my comment was a very good one.

I have to respectfully disagree that nobody confuses Java and Javascript these days. There's an active thread on Quora about this very topic.