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> Software engineers at Google are strongly encouraged to program in one of four officially-approved programming languages at Google: C++, Java, Python, or Go.
by Chasmo 10y ago
> Software engineers at Google are strongly encouraged to program in one of four officially-approved programming languages at Google: C++, Java, Python, or Go.
I wonder which of these languages they use to develop the google front page or any other frontend when no Javascript is allowed...
- mining 10y agohttp://www.gwtproject.org/ http://www.gwtproject.org/ Slightly tongue in cheek (since Google obviously uses javascript), but Java :)
- Itaxpica 10y agoThose are the primary, general four languages, but other languages are used as necessary for specific domains (e.g. Javascript, Objective-C/Swift), they're just not guaranteed to get the same level of internal tooling and infrastructure support (though in practice they do).
- DocSavage 10y agoClearly there is some use of Dart and JavaScript (vanilla, Angular and Polymer). It would be interesting to hear percentages across Google development.
- fergus_google 10y agoThat's actually an error in the paper -- JavaScript is now an officially approved programming language at Google.
- user5994461 10y agoThe only 4 languages I known. Awesome!