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Google is not at all a Go shop. Google is a C++ shop, especially when it comes to servers.

• panpanna 7y ago
  (that contradicts your earlier comment) Google has been gradually moving away from C++ and Java since 2012. See this quora post with multiple references from Google employees. https://www.quora.com/How-is-Go-used-at-Google-What-could-be-areas-specific-systems-applications-in-which-Go-could-replace-other-languages-used-nowadays-inside-Google-and-why-would-it-make-sense-to-introduce-Go-in-place-of-another-language https://www.quora.com/How-is-Go-used-at-Google-What-could-be...
  • pjmlp 7y ago
    That is not what their employees talk about at CppCon, LLVM conferences, ISO C++ meetings, Java Language Summit (yes they come around in spite of Android). Go is mostly a Docker/Kubernetes thing.
  • favorited 7y ago
    The fact that most Google code is C++ does not at all contradict that they are invested in Swift.