Although true for programming CS, I have to note here that Google hires people who didn't study programming per se. One guy I know who worked at Google did proc

Although true for programming CS, I have to note here that Google hires people who didn't study programming per se. One guy I know who worked at Google did processor design. They hired him for web programming or something about as unrelated as possible. Who knows how many extra-bright, barely-programming grads they pull in. They need them to learn quickly to be productive as closely to day 1 as possible. Hence, Go. I think Python was main language in that space before Go. It's not as simple or performant as Go, though. So, this was a major improvement even if I think they could've designed an even better language from our perspective.