>Companies like Google with massive Java experience also investing heavily other languages suggests that this is not so compelling. Google's scale means that p

>Companies like Google with massive Java experience also investing heavily other languages suggests that this is not so compelling. Google's scale means that performance actually matters a lot versus productivity. When you've got millions of servers the costs add up. So making something twice as fast but taking 25% more dev time is probably a good tradeoff for them. For most other companies that's not the case.