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JavaScript beats Java at number of stackoverflow questions

6 points by dimboiu ↗ HN
There are more Javascript related questions on http://stackoverflow.com/tags than Java related!!

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hcho
It is more widely deployed and it throws more curve balls. Why are you surprised?
MalcolmDiggs
Wide adoption + low barrier to entry + non-blocking I/O = lots of questions on SO.
thorin
As above. Once you are reasonably confident with Java you are less likely to have the kind of questions that SO can answer e.g. ones with a definitive answer not design/pattern related. The API's are often consistent and well documented. A lot of people coming from C++ / C# etc can easily transfer to Java. Also although they are a similar age JavaScript uptake for solving real problems is on the increase.

I'm novice to intermediate with Java and JavaScript and I find far more gotchas with JavaScript as evidenced in blogs, books etc e.g. The Good Parts (cf The Bad Parts...)

romanovcode
I can relate to this. I started with C# and asked a lot of questions first few years. Now I barely ask like 1 question a month regarding this language.