[TheApexTheater]

On that note, the size of the courses are not even comparable. If you look at "Explore Courses", a website that gives information on Stanford's course offerings per quarter, you see a massive disparity between CS106A (the intro course almost all CS majors take if they have no programming experience) and CS 106J (The new course). The "A" course, taught in Java, currently has about 560 people in it, while the Javascript course has about 40. (Source: https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?view=catalog&filt... )

I agree that Java may not be the best language to teach to beginning programmers, but to suggest there's been a wide move away from Java (as this article does) sort of oversells the situation, in my opinion.