Seems weird. Google especially is a company that relies so much on programmer productivity & getting things right. Getting them wrong typically means lost rev

Seems weird. Google especially is a company that relies so much on programmer productivity & getting things right. Getting them wrong typically means lost revenue. I mean they spend crazy amounts of money on all kinds of projects that have no directly viable monetization scheme, yet for some reason you think it would be weird for them to explore programming languages? Odd.