JavaScript beats Java at number of stackoverflow questions

http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....

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...)

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.

Wide adoption + low barrier to entry + non-blocking I/O = lots of questions on SO.

It is more widely deployed and it throws more curve balls. Why are you surprised?

Doesn't surprise me at all.