Comment by 1970-01-01
2 days ago
As far as I'm aware, Python was only recently (2020s) taught in most schools, so that's the reason it wasn't and isn't well funded. Schools will stick with legacy languages far beyond their market lifetimes, as that is what the instructors know best. So it's not that it isn't well funded, it's that it's still early in terms of global popularity. As we just witnessed, the funding is just now coming in big drops.
MIT was already using Python by 2009[1]; I think it's been one of the "standard" teaching languages for well over a decade at this point.
(By most metrics, Python became "big" in the mid-late 2000s, which is why the Python 3 transition was so painful.)
[1]: https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-f...