Comment by woodruffw

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...