> I personally think that MIPS is just not relevant enough in the real world anymore to deserve being taught at school. But I do get that there already is a lot

> I personally think that MIPS is just not relevant enough in the real world anymore to deserve being taught at school. But I do get that there already is a lot of material out there. From a pedagogy perspective, the course materials / textbooks haven't really caught up yet. Also, the project I was referring to was in an Architecture class; I would contend that the underlying concepts of how a pipeline works can be taught pretty much any architecture. MIPS is easy to understand, which makes it well suited for teaching. That said, at my university, we are slowly transitioning to RISC-V, so hopefully within a few years it will have propagated to all of the courses.