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Chasmo · on Feb 11, 2017

> Software engineers at Google are strongly encouraged to program in one of four officially-approved programming languages at Google: C++, Java, Python, or Go.

I wonder which of these languages they use to develop the google front page or any other frontend when no Javascript is allowed...

Itaxpica · on Feb 11, 2017

Those are the primary, general four languages, but other languages are used as necessary for specific domains (e.g. Javascript, Objective-C/Swift), they're just not guaranteed to get the same level of internal tooling and infrastructure support (though in practice they do).

fergus_google · on Feb 11, 2017

That's actually an error in the paper -- JavaScript is now an officially approved programming language at Google.

DocSavage · on Feb 11, 2017

Clearly there is some use of Dart and JavaScript (vanilla, Angular and Polymer). It would be interesting to hear percentages across Google development.

mining · on Feb 11, 2017

http://www.gwtproject.org/

Slightly tongue in cheek (since Google obviously uses javascript), but Java :)

user5994461 · on Feb 11, 2017

The only 4 languages I known. Awesome!

Chasmo · on Nov 26, 2015

This is also linked in the README.