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Re:Rob Pike frustrated by Java, C++ complexity by michaelfairley on Sunday July 25, 2010 @11:47PM (#1547075)
A lot of the JavaScript at Google is written in Java and then compiled down to JS with GWT[1].

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Web_Toolkit

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Re:Rob Pike frustrated by Java, C++ complexity by pkulak on Monday July 26, 2010 @12:02AM (#1547107)
@frog: They use it entirely for Wave. That's it though.

And I really don't think that they use JS on the backend for GMail. I figured it was Python or Java.

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Re:Rob Pike frustrated by Java, C++ complexity by moxiemk1 on Monday July 26, 2010 @01:09AM (#1547198)
Perhaps they're using node?
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