Nothing if you refer to one of the other referenced graph [1]. In this graph it's a derivative of C and C++. IMHO, regarding JS, nobody can affirm from which languages it is a derivative unless Brendan Eich himself.

By the way, such a graph does not give much information about the influences that make a language evolves. It's like saying English is a fork of German and since the split neither of these languages have been influenced by others (e.g. Lambdas have been added to Java only because one of the mainteners had a new idea one morning while taking its shower)

[1] http://www.digibarn.com/collections/posters/tongues/Computer...

IIRC, the syntax for JS was redesigned hurriedly to look like Java because at the time Java was hyped as the one true language for everything web, including front-end apps (applets). Definitely the name was chosen for that reason.

I didn't redesign JS syntax at all, it was always C family syntax with Java keywords reserved and a few non-C keywords even used. I never had an s-expr language at first and redid the syntax. Anyone who says so is misinformed.

If you add static types to js and create typescript you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like c# and java ... don’t you think?

And if you add Lambdas to Java you all of a sudden have something that looks a lot like JavaScript... Don't you think?

To me the big different between js and java is the static type system - ignore that the connection between the two is obvious.