I read this more as a nod to the fact that Stanford is the feeder school for SV. And pretty much all SV churns out these days is webapps. Javascript is just a

I read this more as a nod to the fact that Stanford is the feeder school for SV. And pretty much all SV churns out these days is webapps. Javascript is just a very mediocre language in virtually every way. There is only one thing it's good at, webapps, and it's only good at that by virtue of the fact that it's the only game in town for complicated front-end stuff. The only thing that could be said in Javascript's favor as a teaching language is that it has basically no standard library, so teaching the entirety of the language can be done quickly.