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Thank you for your work! Is this an indicator that Google is interested in or using Elixir internally or is it just a response to growing requests from the comm

• DannyBee 9y ago
  The latter. But you should realize Google is pretty conservative internally in the main repository because of the amount of code/tooling/etc. While we let people experiment in the main repository, they are controlled experiments. Even if we decided, tomorrow, to move the main repositories away from our current set of programming languages, that would be a fairly long term path, not a short one. Outside of the main repository, or on google open source projects, or etc, people can generally do what they want, they just don't get the benefits of the above if they aren't using a language we already support very well.
  • hultner 9y ago
    So which languages are use internally in the main repository then?
    • snappyTertle 9y ago
      Java, C++, Python, Golang, and Swift/ObfC for iOS apps
      • pmontra 9y ago
        No JavaScript? Or is that because it's not used internally but in the public internet?
        • Ambroos 9y ago
          Google's "big" client apps (Inbox / Gmail / Calendar) are a mix of Java converted to JS (GWT) and native JS with the Closure library/compiler. I think, anyway.
          • SZJX 9y ago
            Not sure if GWT is still that relevant nowadays. AngularJS was developed by Google many years ago. It was already pure JS.
            • lozenge 9y ago
              Inbox by Gmail launched in 2014, long after Angular JS was first released, and uses GWT.
          • DannyBee 9y ago
            Close. Apps is using mostly using j2cl.
        • piotrkubisa 9y ago
          As addition to JavaScript, they have used their own language called Dart for some their services like AdWords or AdSense [1]. [1]: https://www.dartlang.org/community/who-uses-dart https://www.dartlang.org/community/who-uses-dart
        • DannyBee 9y ago
          JavaScript and Typescript should be in the list, as should Dart.
    • DannyBee 9y ago
      What category are you looking for? Supported or used or being experimented with or what?
  • Touche 9y ago
    You should let Ericsson know the language that powers their telecom systems is an experiment.
    • MaxBarraclough 9y ago
      Pretty clear that DannyBee was referring to their particular Elixir deployment environment, rather than to Elixir as a language, no?
      • Touche 9y ago
        It's FUD aimed at a particular language, though. If you know anyone inside Google you probably know how regularly people "experiment" without pushback; all of the internal Dart projects, for example.
        • DannyBee 9y ago
          Being the person in charge of the new language process, I'm just going to tell you your information is not correct.
          • Touche 9y ago
            Can you explain to me then how Elixir is more experimental than Go was when it was deployed in its early days?
    • DannyBee 9y ago
      Err, I thought I was quite clear that the experiment is people using the new-to-google language, not the language itself
• igravious 9y ago
  I think it's pretty well known that the approved internal Google languages are Java, C++, Go, Python. Could someone correct me if I'm wrong?