Why not? It's one of the most widely known languages among developers in many disciplines, which removes a barrier to learning the concepts. Someone who just wa

Why not? It's one of the most widely known languages among developers in many disciplines, which removes a barrier to learning the concepts. Someone who just wants to familiarize themselves with basic implementations could do so in any language if their goal doesn't include shipping production-quality code. There's also the added bonus that the concepts taught here are already covered by courses in other languages, so anyone is free to use those as well.