It's sad that people see the primary teaching language of a CS course as somehow important for this purpose. Sad that students see it this way, sad that their parents see it this way and particularly sad that would-be employers often see it this way too.
Particularly languages favoured by industry are unlikely to offer CS students anything to be passionate about. Yes, it's true that lots more of them will get jobs maintaining code written in a then-current Java in 2005 than will be writing green field Haskell. But if we just wanted code monkeys a three (or four) year degree is massive overkill.
literally anything else.
You can get work in those other languages, nor is an understanding of Java a prerequisite for understanding how to use those other langs, etc.
and you don't need 10 lines of code to print hello something to the screen.
and JavaScript(ES6) is actually multiparadigm.
don't get me wrong, JS has its warts (and oh my god that is indeed the case.) but you can literally run it in any browser any where, which makes for an excellent teaching aid.
Elegance isn't the first word I'd reach for when describing Java
Jshell
> As per single core performance, javascript is faster and has had first-class-functions from the beginning
Doubt. And no matter how I count, Java had first class functions for 8 years now, at the very least. Does it really matter when exactly did a language feature got implemented?
> and you don't need 10 lines of code to print hello something to the screen.
jshell: System.out.println(“hello world”)
> and JavaScript(ES6) is actually multiparadigm.
That hardly means anything. There are entirely FP libs available for Java.
and ugly and verbose and all the things you mentions are bolted on after that fact or not even apart of the core programming language. which hurts your agreement of its being "elegant" or "designed well"
Also, a JIT compiler written in Java running on top the JVM interpreting (though in a clever way) javascript can match the speed of V8, just saying. Look up TruffleJS!