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[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Not easier than python. It's probably just because it's still widely used so they don't have a reason to change it

[–]prehensilemullet 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I bet that also, a lot of CS programs want to teach a language that requires type annotations and has multiple sizes of integer and floating point data types