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Did Google? Google is very much a polyglot orginization. https://www.quora.com/Which-programming-languages-does-Google-use-internally https://www.quora.com/Whi

Did Google? Google is very much a polyglot orginization. https://www.quora.com/Which-programming-languages-does-Google-use-internally https://www.quora.com/Which-programming-languages-does-Googl... As for Android, Google Purchased Android Inc in 2005, and I'm pretty sure the decision to use Java came before Google's purchase.

pjmlp 10y ago
It also helps that Android team has quite a few ex-Sun engineers that used to work on Java, so I imagine that they rather keep pushing it than anything else. They are always quite clear that it is Java + C or C++ for native methods, regardless of what developers might wish for.