I investigated this in Florida. I checked Florida Tech, Embry-Riddle, and a half dozen state universities. One was Java, two or three were C++ (really C with cout and maybe vector), and all the rest were plain C.
That is a mighty good showing for C.
I can't imagine universities actually caring to teach new programmers Rust... it's an overly complex language that most professors themselves would steer far away from because they know there's more to programming than following trends.
(We learned C++ in university in New York which was basically C with occasional help from C++'s standard library).
Sadly the latter is often how C++ is taught even though it is not at all how modern C++ is used…
Re:C’s Biggest Mistake (2009)
by Gene_Parmesan on Sunday September 13, 2020 @05:51AM
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My much younger brother is currently enrolled at a a major university in comp sci. His coursework is primarily in Java but with certain classes in C and other languages.
My guess is that those four see more use than Rust does, with
Java and C++ forming the base of a typical undergraduate curriculum alongside Python and C and Haskell and OCaml showing up in classes where the concepts behind them are typically introduced. (FWIW: my college experience was C++, C, Scala for the required courses.)
Maybe he meant outside of the education system. I think the reason for that would be hype and peer pressure, and the feeling of novelty, with a hint of FOMO. I do not see any languages being pushed/hyped as hard as Rust.