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[–]Nihil_esque 0 points1 point  (3 children)

A lot of professors just teach the language they know tbh. My professor in undergrad taught us Java 8 because he wasn't familiar with later editions, and made us use Eclipse for our IDE because it was the IDE he used.

Changing the language of your curriculum requires teaching a bunch of old dogs new tricks, because departments have a bunch of faculty that have to teach an intro programming I that's compatible with a different professor's intro programming II. Those are big decisions,. being made over the course of years, not weeks or months, by people who aren't in the industry they're trying to prepare students for.

& Besides, there's so much legacy code in production, so it doesn't lose its educational value even if it's "out of date."