There is still a huge market demand for Java. Moreover the recent releases are doing a great job adding features following recent trends. If thought using JDK 1

There is still a huge market demand for Java. Moreover the recent releases are doing a great job adding features following recent trends. If thought using JDK 16+ a student will be able to move to Kotlin, Swift, Scala, ... much more easily than few years ago. IMO it's more about updating the curricula than dropping Java.