Past HN discussions of the Ironies of Automation (Bainbridge): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41800036

why should they have to share those private APIs?

> most common language a computer engineer

Depends on your definition of a computer engineer. Dealing with strings in Python vs. dealing with character arrays in C is a world of a difference.

The decision to use Python feels like a solid compromise between giving the students a stair step to applied computer science work, while stripping away the cruft and language-specifics that would distract from implementing the more theoretical learning material

more like privacy as an excuse for crippled models

as opposed to putting it on their store as people have done for 10+ years?