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Re:Software Engineering at Google by Chasmo on Saturday February 11, 2017 @07:12AM (#13622275)
> 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...

Re:Software Engineering at Google by Itaxpica on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:55AM (#13622613)
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).
Re:Software Engineering at Google by fergus_google on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:18AM (#13622967)
That's actually an error in the paper -- JavaScript is now an officially approved programming language at Google.
Re:Software Engineering at Google by DocSavage on Saturday February 11, 2017 @10:18AM (#13622966)
Clearly there is some use of Dart and JavaScript (vanilla, Angular and Polymer). It would be interesting to hear percentages across Google development.
Re:Software Engineering at Google by mining on Saturday February 11, 2017 @08:28AM (#13622495)
http://www.gwtproject.org/

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

Re:Software Engineering at Google by user5994461 on Saturday February 11, 2017 @11:21AM (#13623220)
The only 4 languages I known. Awesome!